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My worst prediction ever was at the end of my book, when I struck a positive note about voice interfaces. The startup I was at in 2015 had the pitch "Let your s
by lkrubner 4y ago
My worst prediction ever was at the end of my book, when I struck a positive note about voice interfaces. The startup I was at in 2015 had the pitch "Let your sales people talk directly to Salesforce" and we pushed the limits of what we could do with NLP. That particular startup had spectacularly bad management and so it flamed out in a series of screaming, raging fights, which I documented here:
https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/0998997617/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1668096943&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/09...
But at the end of the book I struck an upbeat note, about how the technology was advancing quickly and within 3 or 4 years someone would achieve something much greater than our own limited successes.
But I was wrong. 7 years later I'm surprised at how little progress there has been. I don't see any startup that's done much better than what we did in 2015. Voice interfaces remain limited in accuracy and use.