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I've replaced my voice google assistant searches with the voice feature of the Bing app. It's a night and day difference. Bing voice is what I always expected f

I've replaced my voice google assistant searches with the voice feature of the Bing app. It's a night and day difference. Bing voice is what I always expected from an AI companion of the future, it is just lacking commands -- setting tasks, home automation, etc.

3c0 3y ago
precisely this. once someone figures out how to get something like GPT integrated with actual products like smart home devices and the same access levels as siri/google assistant, it will be the true voice assistant experience everyone has wanted.
- throeaaysn 3y ago
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- com2kid 3y ago
  My prediction on this is eventually the LLMs will just write and execute scripts directly to control things. Imagine if iOS had something like apple script and all apps exposed and documented endpoints. LLMs would be able to trivially solve problems that the best voice assistants today cannot handle. Then again none of the current assistants can handle all that much. "Send Alex P a meeting invite tomorrow for a playdate at the Zoo, he's from out of town so include the Zoo's full address in the invite". "Find the next mutual free slot on the team's calendar and send out an invite for a zoom meeting at that time". These are all things that voice assistants should have been doing a decade ago, but I presume they'd have required too much one off investment. Give an LLM proper API access and train it on some example code, and these problems are easy for it to solve. Heck I bet if you do enough specialized training you could get one of the tiny simple LLMs to do it.
  - throwuwu 3y ago
    OpenInterpreter
wccrawford 3y ago
I got sick of searching Google for in-game recipes for Disney Dreamlight because most of the results are a bunch of pointless text, and then finally the recipe hidden in it somewhere. I used Bing yesterday and it was able to parse out exactly what I wanted, and then give me idiot-proof steps to making the recipe in-game. (I didn't need the steps, but it gave me what I wanted up front, easily.) I tried it twice and it was awesome both times. I'll definitely be using it in the future.
- a_vanderbilt 3y ago
  It almost sounds like their assistant and their search engine have the same problem! Years of SEO optimized garbage has polluted search and the data streams it feeds to their other products. I have a concern that soon the mess will turn into AI-optimized trash, with what is essentially data poisoning to get the AI to shovel the fake content instead.
- Jensson 3y ago
  > I got sick of searching Google for in-game recipes for Disney Dreamlight You mean these? Took me a few seconds to find, not sure how an LLM would make that easier. I guess the biggest benefit of LLM then is for people who don't know how to find stuff. https://dreamlightvalleywiki.com/Cooking https://dreamlightvalleywiki.com/Cooking
  - wccrawford 3y ago
    Yes, but each time, I only actually care about 1 recipe, and it's easier to just search for that recipe than find a list of recipes and then search through that. Bing made it even easier. Also, I've found some of those lists to be missing some recipes.
bytefactory 3y ago
Did you find a way to do this seamlessly including being able to say something like "Hey Bing", or do you just have a shortcut or widget for this?
- rubslopes 3y ago
  No. At least on Android there is no system shortcut that takes you directly to the voice feature yet. For now, I'm using the widget.
  - bytefactory 3y ago
    Thanks. One day soon, hopefully.

3c0 3y ago

precisely this. once someone figures out how to get something like GPT integrated with actual products like smart home devices and the same access levels as siri/google assistant, it will be the true voice assistant experience everyone has wanted.

throeaaysn 3y ago
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com2kid 3y ago
My prediction on this is eventually the LLMs will just write and execute scripts directly to control things. Imagine if iOS had something like apple script and all apps exposed and documented endpoints. LLMs would be able to trivially solve problems that the best voice assistants today cannot handle. Then again none of the current assistants can handle all that much. "Send Alex P a meeting invite tomorrow for a playdate at the Zoo, he's from out of town so include the Zoo's full address in the invite". "Find the next mutual free slot on the team's calendar and send out an invite for a zoom meeting at that time". These are all things that voice assistants should have been doing a decade ago, but I presume they'd have required too much one off investment. Give an LLM proper API access and train it on some example code, and these problems are easy for it to solve. Heck I bet if you do enough specialized training you could get one of the tiny simple LLMs to do it.
- throwuwu 3y ago
  OpenInterpreter

wccrawford 3y ago

I got sick of searching Google for in-game recipes for Disney Dreamlight because most of the results are a bunch of pointless text, and then finally the recipe hidden in it somewhere. I used Bing yesterday and it was able to parse out exactly what I wanted, and then give me idiot-proof steps to making the recipe in-game. (I didn't need the steps, but it gave me what I wanted up front, easily.) I tried it twice and it was awesome both times. I'll definitely be using it in the future.

a_vanderbilt 3y ago
It almost sounds like their assistant and their search engine have the same problem! Years of SEO optimized garbage has polluted search and the data streams it feeds to their other products. I have a concern that soon the mess will turn into AI-optimized trash, with what is essentially data poisoning to get the AI to shovel the fake content instead.
Jensson 3y ago
> I got sick of searching Google for in-game recipes for Disney Dreamlight You mean these? Took me a few seconds to find, not sure how an LLM would make that easier. I guess the biggest benefit of LLM then is for people who don't know how to find stuff. https://dreamlightvalleywiki.com/Cooking https://dreamlightvalleywiki.com/Cooking
- wccrawford 3y ago
  Yes, but each time, I only actually care about 1 recipe, and it's easier to just search for that recipe than find a list of recipes and then search through that. Bing made it even easier. Also, I've found some of those lists to be missing some recipes.

bytefactory 3y ago

Did you find a way to do this seamlessly including being able to say something like "Hey Bing", or do you just have a shortcut or widget for this?

rubslopes 3y ago
No. At least on Android there is no system shortcut that takes you directly to the voice feature yet. For now, I'm using the widget.
- bytefactory 3y ago
  Thanks. One day soon, hopefully.