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Re:The pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the c... by KevinMS on Sunday June 23, 2024 @08:51PM (#40771872)
Anybody remember when speech to text was hyped up in the 90's? Dragon Naturally Speaking and IBM Via Voice? It was going to change the world. Ended up being a few mundane things like 'hey siri', annoying car voice commands, and really annoying customer service. I think AI is going to end up like that, a few niche uses (maybe really good, but really niche), and with that fade into the background.
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Re:The pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the c... by rsynnott on Monday June 24, 2024 @05:42AM (#40774056)
Yep, that was like three AI hype cycles ago (in between we had the self-driving cars era of CV, the prior Microsoft Tay-era chatbot mini-boom, and arguably also an expert systems bubble in the noughties, though that never really went anywhere). Meanwhile, 30 years later, voice recognition is finally at the point where it can be used for low-stakes scenarios where correctness doesn't matter.
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