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Unlikely. We can't even get a decent home automation voice assistant today. Total garbage at this point. So bad Amazon is getting out of Alexa. If we have one o
by ryanklee 4y ago
Unlikely. We can't even get a decent home automation voice assistant today. Total garbage at this point. So bad Amazon is getting out of Alexa. If we have one of those in 5 years, we'll be lucky. People like Elon Musk are over promising on every front and there's going to be hell to pay because of it. We're going to see a reversal in investment and a general public turn away from this tech. A new winter is coming. Niche products will be created, but these will be amazing specialized tools. Another 50 years for AGI, if we make it that long.
- xg15 4y agoThat reasoning feels sort of circular though. The hype about ChatGPT is because that bot has (ostensibly) archieved exactly the kind of thing that Alexa, Siri, etc have always struggled with: Natural conversations. If that progress is true, I think we can either expect Alexa and co to be upgraded with GPT-x tech at some point or a new competing voice assistant to emerge. I think it remains to be seen if Amazon will still be pulling out at that point m
- ryanklee 4y agoText interface is a totally different domain than human speech.