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I'm over 50. I use Alexa and Siri every day. Of course, I've always been this way. I've heard that the old thing "does everything I want it do it" for decades.

There are plenty of people on the Internet, for example, explaining why electric cars won't work for them today because they need to drive 500 miles every Monday...

People think we'll have self-driving cars within a decade but voice assistants will remain primitive?

Now that there's a financial incentive to improve voice user interfaces (VUI), they will improve rapidly. Hopefully, there will be a great open source option (like Linux), but I'm not waiting... After watching Star Trek and HAL as a child, I thought we'd be talking with computers decades ago.




Comparing voice assistant to an electric car is like comparing ebook to a private jet..


Do you think the technology in a voice assistant is in the hardware device on your counter?

The Deep Learning in natural language processing is probably more difficult than in self-driving cars.


Language processing can compare inputs to stored voice samples.

It is simpler than self driving cars which have to navigate a completely dynamic environment with many autonomous actors and make good decisions very quickly.




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