Factors behind the explosion in voice interfaces. 1: ML means transcription & NLP are much much better, so you can at least try…
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2: big internet companies want their own platforms but Amazon & FB don’t have their own mobile OS. So, see Alexa & Messenger bots…
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3: GAFA now are 10x the size of Wintel in the 90s. So there’s room for lots of side projects (Watches. Home. Drones. Custom chips…)
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4: mobile has left the hyper growth phase and everyone is looking for the Next Big Thing, and jumping on any possible candidates.
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5: the catch: ML makes voice input works but doesn’t change the computer’s ability to answer. And we’re decades (at least) from HAL 9000
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Benedict, I hear ya. The Macintosh was useful monochrome & limited. It was decades to the iPhone.
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Benedict, indeed fully agree. Alexa is not the road map, it is a use case demo. Voice mediated AI is the arc.
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