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> Managing a stopwatch on Smart Displays and Speakers. You can still set timers and alarms. How much does this cost to maintain? A stopwatch? They’re axing a S
by Bartkusa 3y ago
> Managing a stopwatch on Smart Displays and Speakers. You can still set timers and alarms.
How much does this cost to maintain? A stopwatch? They’re axing a STOPWATCH?!
This is embarrassing.
- JoshTriplett 3y agoTaking a guess, based on experiences with using Google Assistant extensively: What do you do if you have statistics saying that, say, a feature is used by a small fraction of users, and 40% of the activations of the feature were in fact not what the user wants, and instead were misunderstandings of requests for something else? Ambiguity is a massive problem.
- ketralnis 3y agoBe better and misunderstand less often?
- JoshTriplett 3y agoHuman syntax sometimes has inherent ambiguities.
- ketralnis 3y agoAnd yet humans figure it out sometimes
- oxygen_crisis 3y agoSo ask for clarification. State your interpretation and give an opportunity for the speaker to confirm or clarify. This isn't some new intractible issue, this has always been a fundamental aspect of communication in a natural language.
- Zuiii 3y agorequire more specific instructions to access less popular feature? I will never understand companies breaking their own products.