Chris HansonWHY THE FUCK does Siri on a HomePod have to go to the FUCKING INTERNET to turn off a FUCKING LIGHT in the SAME FUCKING HOUSE? That’s rank fucking incompetence and it’s been tolerated—nay, enabled—by a complacent press for way too fucking long. You could do this in the mid-late 1990s on a PowerMac without round-trips.
You know what the problem was with speech recognition triggered actions on a system that scored a 10 on the BYTE UNIX benchmark in 1994? The FUCKING SPEECH RECOGNITION!
Turning reliably-recognized speech into action was fully deterministic and 100% FUCKING RELIABLE! Not this “will it or won’t it” bullshit.
AI is the new cocaine@eschaton try asking for the time when it has not internet
Queen L’Antifa@eschaton Didn’t they brag about how much processing power they had for offline Siri requests at one point? Did that just go away like QA and decades of UX wisdom?
matthew green@eschaton it sucks being the product now