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Ido Hartogsohn's avatar

Great post on a timely and crucial topic. Thanks Jules!

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Gabrielle Reason's avatar

When I started by career one of my clients was Google who, at the time, were throwing everything they had into voice search. There were a lot of claims that it was going to radically change the whole human experience and how we interacted with the world.

A few weeks ago, I got a hire car. By the end of one long trip, my partner was incandescent with rage at how inept the voice search was that the plugged in phone was forcing us to use while I was driving. Fully shouting and swearing at it.

When I hear all this hype and doom omens about AI I can't help but appreciate a lot of the people talking about how it's going to fundamentally change the future of humanity are the same people who have had a hand in creating it. And consider themselves exceptionally intelligent beings for having created/designed it. I'd like to ask a lot of them to return their focus to getting voice search to deliver on its promises and then I'll maybe believe them about AI...

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