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Indeed. The bigger commercial problem with voice assistants seems to be that they aren't used in profitable ways (for the makers of the assistants), not that th
by detaro 3y ago
Indeed. The bigger commercial problem with voice assistants seems to be that they aren't used in profitable ways (for the makers of the assistants), not that they aren't used.
- prepend 3y agoBut I think that’s a huge selling point for Siri (vs Alexa or Google Assistant). I don’t want my local AI to be monetized. I read Ender’s Game as a kid and have been wishing for Jane. Imagine Jane being called a failure because it didn’t phone home enough or generate enough revenue. Hopefully our future has an open source AI that’s built by people with a humanitarian aspect and the money comes from the hardware to run it in something I wear or implant. The dystopian view is that Jane only recommends who wins the ad auction. Or answers the question based on whether Russia or China pay the most for SEO disinformation.
- deafpolygon 3y agoJust because Apple doesn't monetize it in the same way as Google or Amazon, doesn't mean they aren't collecting ungodly amounts of data on its customers.
- prepend 3y agoThey say they aren’t and don’t have a history like Google and Amazon. I don’t trust them completely, but I give them more trust than Google where their business model is contingent on collecting these data from everything they can.
- deafpolygon 3y ago> Hopefully our future has an open source AI Well, open source needs to be built by users for that to be a successful future. Right now, the bulk of 'open source' is "open core" - where the vast majority of development is driven by corporations. I'm a big supporter of open source, but let's face reality - software is increasingly complex and hobbyists need to put food on the table. There's little room in between these days.