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This whole thing is basically a nonstory when you realize how much money is in tech. Meta changed their name and sank billions on an idea that everyone thought was stupid from the beginning, and they’re still fine.
Putting a billion into the flavor-of-the-month that has like 10% chance to be the next big thing is a no-brainer when you’re printing multiple billions in profit doing nothing, and have a lot more cash on hand.
The real story, is how wealth inequality and monopolies have essentially allowed the rich to waste tons of money chasing more wealth while having almost no incentive to provide value to society. Who gives a fuck about hallucination and prompt injection? It’s all trivial details that VCs are giving away billions to eventually solve.
Well put with that relevant user name for the Dem who cemented wealth inequality with Nafta that Reagan had worked so hard to get the ball rolling on.
Because people like me genuinely don’t want this crap?
Like never? Even as it gets better?
For me, that depends on a whole lot of things. Who owns it? Who pays for its operation? How much and what access does it need? What verifiable privacy protections are there? How transparent are its processes?
I’m just generally suspicious of companies whose products are ultimately meant to be integral to our daily lives. These kinds of tools will undoubtedly need access to a huge chunk of our personal and professional data to work effectively. I’d rather not interact with the world through the lens of someone’s corporate vision. With the right protections? Sure, I could see some cool and creative use cases. But that unfortunately brings me back to my general skepticism.
Amazon is losing money on basic voice assistant, but maybe if they make it more expensive , it will become profitable ?
I mean, that’s a little like asking, “How many swift kicks to my nuts before it makes me a billionaire?”
Because it’s one of those cost evaluation situations where they thought it was a shot in the dark at first, but by now it’s clearly a loss. So, the whole thing feels a little like, The Producer’s, something isn’t smelling right for any outsiders.
Alexa is trash and its entire implementation is trash. I’ve tried it with a smart home and it’s a nightmare.
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.
I switched from Android to iPhone a few years ago. I still miss Google Assistant so much. 😬
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.
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
That does sound good.
It would be nice for all these things to be a lot more local. At least local control things should be able to be done without a cloud service.
Me looking up the exact order of commands I have to give the machine to get connected to a real first level support employee.
Me, an “AI written” regurgitated article on a content mill website uncaringly misleading you about the best way to get connected to a purple banana fridge.
Hmm, an unfinished technology has an exploit no one building it expected. Heh, welcome to the Internet.
