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Even if it got it right the first time the processing time is so slow you could've opened the calendar yourself and checked, probably twice

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The reality is that the tech needed for this is still in it's infancy. It'll be at least another decade or so before we have a proper "virtual assistant" that isn't just a bunch of preset actions hidden behind a language engine.

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Have you tried doing this though? It's actually kinda neat

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/how-to/function-calling

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Siri and Google assistant are like decade old now, they could search for a calendar date already.

I actually think Google even did it dirty with this showcase. It's obviously more capable than the old assistants, it properly "digitized" the text on the image and understood it should match user's location with cities on poster without being explicitly told that. But this is just a stupid use case for it, could nobody at Google come up with anything more useful?

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As I said, the technology isn't ready. Right now you're converting speech into basic meaning and using that to trigger a premade action. The most recent leap was understanding prompts which aren't as specific as you needed with Siri, but you still can't really deviate from whatever the devs programmed in.

It only becomes truly useful when you can give an abstract command. Something like "has Jane ever called me after 2am?" is simple but tedious for a human to do, however these assistants won't do it at all. Until then it'll remain a gimmick.

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Language is so complicated that the AI should be learning in real time using customers. Like if I use a euphemism or idiom used only in german does it even know wtf I said?

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If you use an anglicized version of an idiom that only exists in another language you're r-slurred and should be shot

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Isn't that the case with a lot of these features?

Couldn't we just optimize UIs better for quicker interaction of basic tasks?

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Google doesn't know how to optimize UIs, they're only capable of adding bloat and removing useful features

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>google

I think you mean every company. Theres nothing but bloat and useless features on every product now. I blame all the javascript developers.

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Why optimize the UI when you can farm even more data from your user's environment?

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https://media.tenor.com/2GdvMq0z0dUAAAAx/drake-notebook.webp

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Everyone's obviously trying to find a breakthrough new use case for AI but yeah, in medium term, AI will mostly be helpful on the backend, speeding things up and increasing accuracy.

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