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Re:Astronomer responds to Bard launch ad by scarface74 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:25PM (#34699912)
How hard do you really think it is to build intents into something like Siri once you have the underlying technology framework?

Yes I have experience building intents on top of something like Siri.

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Re:Astronomer responds to Bard launch ad by supermatt on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:56PM (#34700368)
It’s not the complexity of building intents that costs the money. Near real-time speech inference at scale doesn’t come for free. It’s only very recently that has started moving to the edge.
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Re:Astronomer responds to Bard launch ad by scarface74 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @05:04PM (#34700443)
Speech inference has been done well enough locally for well over a decade. While an Alexa device probably couldn’t do it, any modern iPhone could.
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Re:Astronomer responds to Bard launch ad by supermatt on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:18AM (#34705162)
> Speech inference has been done well enough locally for well over a decade

The first Alexa device was released in March 2014 - almost 9 years ago. Siri was a couple of years before that.

> While an Alexa device probably couldn’t do it, any modern iPhone could.

And that is why it is done in the cloud and has only recently started moving to the edge. Also, the latency of

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