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A brief tangent - the only useful bit of voice recognition for me has been telling Siri to remind me about something at a day and time. Calendar events don't wo
by seibelj 5y ago
A brief tangent - the only useful bit of voice recognition for me has been telling Siri to remind me about something at a day and time. Calendar events don't work well (gets inserted on the wrong calendar, can't invite attendees properly), and every other use case for voice control has been a gimmick at best that I have shut off or not used. Whenever I call any phone number, I slam the 0 button and say "operator" to bypass the horrible menus, which usually accept digits anyway as the voice control is a piece of shit. The number of "Chat Bot AI" startups that have been funded, found no usage, pivoted to something else has been astronomical, and chat bots should seemingly be one of the first use cases of useful AI.
With that said, I have found all "creative" types of AI to be similarly gimmicky and shallow. Co-pilot is like IntelliJ code-complete in more generic circumstances. It can't architect systems, interview and recruit good engineers, or do any of the things that separate true success from failure. It's yet another cool demo but ultimately useless for me.