ziplock9000 t1_itgw1bs wrote on October 23, 2022 at 3:45 PM

I think voice assistants plateaued about 3 years ago after very rapid initial progress.

was_der_Fall_ist t1_itgx3up wrote on October 23, 2022 at 3:53 PM

The initial, pre-LLM phase did indeed seem to plateau a few years ago. But now we are beginning to enter the phase in which voice assistance use large language models, and we will see even more rapid progress.

ziplock9000 t1_itgyi3x wrote on October 23, 2022 at 4:03 PM

What do you see as fruits of that progress?

was_der_Fall_ist t1_ith0o75 wrote on October 23, 2022 at 4:17 PM

I expect voice assistants to begin to truly understand language, rather than simply having a list of set responses to pre-programmed questions. This will probably be integrated with internet search, so these assistants could help us do complex research. Eventually, I see the goal as a complete natural-language interface for computing, which we will use alongside augmented reality and AI-generated media.

HydrousIt t1_ithhr4p wrote on October 23, 2022 at 6:10 PM

Basically like a robot assistant from a movie

mooslar t1_itjmyio wrote on October 24, 2022 at 3:11 AM

Having a Jarvis would be awesome

Reasonable-Room-307 t1_itizd86 wrote on October 24, 2022 at 12:04 AM

Idk why you’re so down on the future of voice assistants. I mean look at the GPT-3 playground, imagine something much better than that but modified for voice command.

ziplock9000 t1_itkzlgf wrote on October 24, 2022 at 12:49 PM

Eh? I'm not down at all. I just asked someone their personal opinion how they think they will progress in the near term now that we both agreed it had stagnated. Imagine "GPT-3" is a big vague too.