Re:I ask 100 information questions to four digital assistants
by bluGill on Friday June 30, 2017 @05:18PM
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I think part of it is desire. Many people would love to have an assistant like that. There is a vague memory of the days of personal secretaries, a girl (those were sexist days) who could looks things up for you so that you can spend your efforts are other tasks. There are a lot of times when everybody could use help, but they don't have it.
I think @seiferteric's point was that the expectation may not be there because it is a voice search. That expectation is there because that's how it was marketed.
If the marketing for these things was: "Ask a question, and get search results by voice" I don't think I'd have the expectation that it find and deliver the correct answer to me.
But the marketing for all of these devices is: "It's a personal assistant! Ask it a question and you'll get an answer!"
I'm personally not convinced that the high expectations are because it's a voice interaction, but rather that the technology simply can't live up to the marketing pitch.