Mastodawn

AI is going to turn out to be just like Apple's Siri, right? Promising a lot, delivering... a bit.

I mean, when your most reliable use of a personal assistant is setting timers for cooking, you wonder how useful it really is overall.

@timrichards i used siri shortcuts to make a voice dictation flow that writes directly to my Obsidian vault's daily note.

@kboyd I have no idea what that means, but it sounds impressive :)

@timrichards It means that I can voice dictate a Captain's Log, like on star trek, by saying "Siri, Captain's Log".

It's not as elegant as depicted on TV, due to input processing limitations, but it does work. And it's powered by Siri thanks to Siri Shortcuts.

So the assistants aren't necessarily as useless/inflexible as they might seem, is my core point.

@kboyd Cute. So that's intended as a diary entry?

@timrichards yes, exactly.