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Because sitting at a computer or a phone is, in fact, unnatural. We are trained to do that. Asking a question of another person is natural. If you can get Al
by xen2xen1 4y ago
Because sitting at a computer or a phone is, in fact, unnatural. We are trained to do that. Asking a question of another person is natural. If you can get Alexa or Google assistant to reliably, without lying, answer questions, that could be huge. Caveats, but so much $ is put into those things and they suck. Also, if you could get a Google AI to be like a real assistant, context and understanding of what you're doing, that could also be huge. Just getting the assitants of the world to really intract would slice a large piece off the Google search pie, and potentially set up whoever does that well to be the next major interface to tech.
- leobg 4y agoNot sure if this is accurate. Voice interaction is very slow, and low bandwidth. Visual interaction is much faster. Hence people love their spreadsheets. Even if a voice assistant allowed you to interrupt it, to make fast course corrections, it would still be much slower than, say, interacting with the filters on Google Flights. And I am saying this after having built for myself a bi directional voice interface to ChatGPT. There are certainly situations where it is great to use it, such as while driving, or perhaps in the kitchen while having your hands full. And probably on mobile, where screen real estate is scarce. But those doing information, work, or even just online shopping, probably won’t be giving up their screens anytime soon.