ijeffWhy Big Tech's bet on AI assistants is so risky
tfw_no_toiletpaperMe 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.
Amazon is losing money on basic voice assistant, but maybe if they make it more expensive , it will become profitable ?
WYLD_STALLYNSI 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.
ripcordIt'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.
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 it 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.
UsernameblankfaceHmm, an unfinished technology has an exploit no one building it expected. Heh, welcome to the Internet.
Gonna just buck the trend and say that this AI push has me excited for the future. It’s easy to be a nay-sayer, but I genuinely believe the leaps made in AI in just the last year are amazing.
The author clearly doesn’t like AI, and completely mischaracterizes Mistral AI for things their models could say, but doesn’t consider at all why unaligned models are useful in developing your own.
The author likes to highlight that sometimes an AI will make things up, a phenomenon known as hallucinating. Hallucinations could also be called “creativity” in certain contexts. This isn’t always a fault, especially when creativity is the intended purpose.
The author pointed out how it’s possible to prompt engineer out sensitive data, and how there’s a lack of privacy… which isn’t a problem with the tech, but rather tech companies.
The technology used behind the scenes with ChatGPT isn’t exclusively for text generation. I’m seeing it appear in speech to text / text to speech applications. It’s showing up in image and video editing. It’s showing up in … well … images/movies of an adult nature.
You’re probably already consuming AI generated content without even realizing it.