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I think this is wrong because you can always build a search engine - it’s not hard - and you can supplement the learned models with cryptographically secured pr

I think this is wrong because you can always build a search engine - it’s not hard - and you can supplement the learned models with cryptographically secured private data to build a private personalized model. In fact this seems in all ways superior to any alternative, and strikes at the heart of the Google spy ware ad spam business model. And seriously, did you really try to assert the Google whatever it is has outperformed Siri? I’d love to meet someone that uses it so I can verify this statement. But with the advent of Chatgpt Alexa, Siri, and Google whatever all look like freshman projects. The next generation of assistants have just begun, and I assure you, the state of the past has nothing to do with what comes next. OpenAI hit a giant reset button across an awful lot of stuff.

coolspot 4y ago
> And seriously, did you really try to assert the Google whatever it is has outperformed Siri? Anything outperforms Siri. Google Assistant is head and shoulders above Alexa and Siri.
- schrodinger 4y ago
  I have both and find that 90% of the time my commands are “remind me ___”, “wake me up at ___”, “what’s the weather today”, and “play ___ on Spotify”. For these, I can’t tell the difference between google and Siri in terms of quality (but Alexa was worse).
  - bigDinosaur 4y ago
    I was just setting reminders today and had Siri repeatedly fail to do what I want. The only use case I have for it is setting timers, which is does very well. I'd use it for much more if it was as good as ChatGPT.
    - fnordpiglet 4y ago
      This is entirely my point. They’re all crap at a fundamental level, none of them outperform any other. But the next generation, which will assuredly be backed by a LLM, will be shockingly powerful.
      - abudabi123 4y ago
        The MKBHD personality is onto Monte Carlo testing in his device reviews. He has an intuition for good UIX. Google and Apple should pay people like MKBHD and his production crew a billion dollars every year to film achievable, desirable text, voice, camera A.I. assisted use-cases.
        fnordpiglet 4y ago
        They don’t work like that though. Instead they spend $3b / year on hiring fungible cog SDE 2 job code 67483’s and look at gantt chart roadmaps produced by fungible cog PM 3 job code 74842’s for fungible cog SDM 7 job code 84747’s with the nominal assistance of centralized (I.e., marginalized) fungible cog UX 5 job code 35563’s then wonder why it’s perennially late and complete garbage. Except no one wonders that because fungible cogs don’t have wonder in their job responsibly matrix.

coolspot 4y ago

> And seriously, did you really try to assert the Google whatever it is has outperformed Siri? Anything outperforms Siri. Google Assistant is head and shoulders above Alexa and Siri.

schrodinger 4y ago
I have both and find that 90% of the time my commands are “remind me ___”, “wake me up at ___”, “what’s the weather today”, and “play ___ on Spotify”. For these, I can’t tell the difference between google and Siri in terms of quality (but Alexa was worse).
- bigDinosaur 4y ago
  I was just setting reminders today and had Siri repeatedly fail to do what I want. The only use case I have for it is setting timers, which is does very well. I'd use it for much more if it was as good as ChatGPT.
  - fnordpiglet 4y ago
    This is entirely my point. They’re all crap at a fundamental level, none of them outperform any other. But the next generation, which will assuredly be backed by a LLM, will be shockingly powerful.
    - abudabi123 4y ago
      The MKBHD personality is onto Monte Carlo testing in his device reviews. He has an intuition for good UIX. Google and Apple should pay people like MKBHD and his production crew a billion dollars every year to film achievable, desirable text, voice, camera A.I. assisted use-cases.
      - fnordpiglet 4y ago
        They don’t work like that though. Instead they spend $3b / year on hiring fungible cog SDE 2 job code 67483’s and look at gantt chart roadmaps produced by fungible cog PM 3 job code 74842’s for fungible cog SDM 7 job code 84747’s with the nominal assistance of centralized (I.e., marginalized) fungible cog UX 5 job code 35563’s then wonder why it’s perennially late and complete garbage. Except no one wonders that because fungible cogs don’t have wonder in their job responsibly matrix.