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> I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools Same. It reminds me the 1984 event in which the computer itself famously “spoke” to the audience using its
by dakiol 1y ago
> I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools
Same. It reminds me the 1984 event in which the computer itself famously “spoke” to the audience using its text-to-speech feature. Pretty amazing at that time, but nevertheless quite useless since then
- ElFitz 1y agoIt has proven very useful to a great number of people who, although they are a minority, have vastly benefited from TTS and other accessibility features.
- MountDoom 1y agoI think it's easy to pick apart arguments out of context, but since the parent is comparing it to AI, I assume what they meant is that it hasn't turned out to be nearly as revolutionary for general-purpose computing as we thought. Talking computers became an ubiquitous sci-fi trope. And in reality... even now, when we have nearly-flawless natural language processing, most people prefer to text LLMs than to talk to them. Heck, we usually prefer texting to calling when interacting with other people.
- jama211 1y agoI don’t think anyone watched that demo back in 1984 and thought “oh this tech means we can talk to computers!” - it was clearly a demonstration of… well text to speech. It demonstrated successfully exactly what it could do, and didn’t imply what they’re implying it implied.
- jama211 1y agoText to speech has been an incredible breakthrough for many with vision, visual processing, or speech disabilities. You take that back. Stephen Hawking without text to speech would’ve been mute.
- tracerbulletx 1y agoIts not useless, you're just taking it for granted. The whole national emergency system works off text to speech.