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Why Big Tech's bet on AI assistants is so risky (www.technologyreview.com)
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Alexa is trash and its entire implementation is trash. I’ve tried it with a smart home and it’s a nightmare.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It's...okay. What is garbage is that after billions of dollars spent, it has barely improved in the last 5 years. In some cases gotten worse.

    And don't get me started on Siri.

    However, if Alexa/Siri had integrated with ChatGPT instead of Wolfram Alpha and "Amazon contributors" I might feel somewhat different. The info would definitely not be less reliable.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I switched from Android to iPhone a few years ago. I still miss Google Assistant so much. 😬

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The part that kills me is that Siri was (effectively) first. They had probably 2 years' lead on everyone else. Somehow they squandered that - pretty quickly - fell behind, and in some ways got WORSE. And it's been 12 years.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    The one thing Siri has above all else is being local where possible. Personally I thought one of the biggest announcements from last month’s Apple event was that the new watch is powerful enough to do voice processing locally.

    Of course that also may be one of the reasons Siri lags the cloud voice assistants

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