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Controversial Opinion: I think the tablet controls hidden behind extra menu buttons is just a stopgap until a GPT takeover of those controls. I should just be

Controversial Opinion: I think the tablet controls hidden behind extra menu buttons is just a stopgap until a GPT takeover of those controls. I should just be able to talk to the car to do what I need it to do. That would be truly minimalist.

digging 3y ago
I doubt that's controversial if we generalize from GPT to computer-control. Tesla has probably been banking on FSD this whole time.
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dmonitor 3y ago
I’d much rather turn a knob than look to the passenger, say “hold on, stop talking so i can change the volume. car, turn down the volume… car, slightly turn up the volume” i find the noise level i want
- keep_reading 3y ago
  Why would anyone design that? Only the things you're unlikely to use while driving should be strictly voice controlled
callalex 3y ago
You can already do that in a Tesla. Or pretty much any car in that price category. These days the understanding and responsiveness could be described as “pretty good”. But still nobody uses it because as long as you are able-bodied, voice control is a shitty interface. It requires you to keep context in your head of what the machine is thinking about (instead of whatever conversation you were already having). It requires you to interrupt any conversation you were currently having. It requires the system to give asynchronous confirmation that it fulfilled your request after you have made the request, instead of clicking while you are turning a dial or pushing a button. Anything with fine grain controls requires a back and forth dialogue, such as the volume problem a sibling commenter described. Sure, a better text model might be more graceful at handling a statement like “my windshield looks too foggy” but that’s really a tiny marginal improvement over what we already have and nobody uses.

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Controversial Opinion: I think the tablet controls hidden behind extra menu buttons is just a stopgap until a GPT takeover of those controls. I should just be

by pj_mukh 3y ago

digging 3y ago
I doubt that's controversial if we generalize from GPT to computer-control. Tesla has probably been banking on FSD this whole time.
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dmonitor 3y ago
I’d much rather turn a knob than look to the passenger, say “hold on, stop talking so i can change the volume. car, turn down the volume… car, slightly turn up the volume” i find the noise level i want
- keep_reading 3y ago
  Why would anyone design that? Only the things you're unlikely to use while driving should be strictly voice controlled
callalex 3y ago
You can already do that in a Tesla. Or pretty much any car in that price category. These days the understanding and responsiveness could be described as “pretty good”. But still nobody uses it because as long as you are able-bodied, voice control is a shitty interface. It requires you to keep context in your head of what the machine is thinking about (instead of whatever conversation you were already having). It requires you to interrupt any conversation you were currently having. It requires the system to give asynchronous confirmation that it fulfilled your request after you have made the request, instead of clicking while you are turning a dial or pushing a button. Anything with fine grain controls requires a back and forth dialogue, such as the volume problem a sibling commenter described. Sure, a better text model might be more graceful at handling a statement like “my windshield looks too foggy” but that’s really a tiny marginal improvement over what we already have and nobody uses.