Re:Astronomer responds to Bard launch ad
by supermatt on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:56PM
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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
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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.
Re:Astronomer responds to Bard launch ad
by supermatt on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:18AM
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> 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