Ask HN: What do you wish digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc.) could do? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc.) could do?

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Post by andai » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 10:58 PM UTC

Eridrus wrote: post #29

cybernytrix wrote: post #27

I'd say AI is real when it can do everything my 4yr old son can understand and do. I used to think this is a low bar, But going by how slow and painful the progress has been, I'm not hopeful it will happen even in my son's lifetime :(

Could you elaborate on that for those of us who are unaware of what cognitive abilities a 4 year old child should possess?

Approx the intelligence of a cat

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc.) could do?

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Post by devilsavocado » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 11:00 PM UTC

I wish it was easier to correct mistakes. Most of the time the voice recognition will only get a single word wrong, yet you need to repeat the entire question or instruction. If Siri interprets "how many pounds is 70 kilograms?" As "how many pounds is 17 kilograms?" Then I should just be able to say "no, 70" and have it corrected.

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc.) could do?

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Post by moreati » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 11:15 PM UTC

@raybb Out of interest, why are you asking?

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc.) could do?

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Post by somaweb » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 11:30 PM UTC

It should remember where I put my stuff. E.g "X remember that I put my big Frying Pan in the cellar."

Next time I ask it, it should Response with this Information.

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc.) could do?

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Post by rasz_pl » Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 11:33 PM UTC

work offline, no calling back to motherbase

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc.) could do?

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Post by pvinis » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 2:27 AM UTC

Integration with messenger, whatsapp, etc. "read me the message I just got", "reply blabla", "send to the foo group, blabla". why is that not here yet?

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc.) could do?

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Post by adiabatty » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 3:13 AM UTC

Control which gizmo handles the command when more than one are in earshot. I'd like to say "Hey champ, …" to get my phone to do something and "hey blew, …" to get my iPad to do something.

I'd also like to be able to control the auto-lock duration by voice; I don't want my iPad falling asleep when I'm not touching it in the kitchen.

Oh, and I'd like a way to get better directions information from it. Questions like "what exit do I take to get to [sporting goods store]?" would be nice to handle; occasionally I'll need computer assistance for only a tiny leg of the trip, and I'll want to minimize my reliance on a computer's instruction as little as possible.

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc.) could do?

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Post by tovmeod » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 12:45 PM UTC

coffee

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc.) could do?

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Post by stevenjgarner » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 3:16 PM UTC

richardboegli wrote: post #12

Be completely open source so that you could control the privacy of it. Completely offline with local processing on the device of choice.

Lucida is an open source end-to-end speech and vision based standalone intelligent personal assistant service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucida_(Intelligent_Assistant)

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish digital assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc.) could do?

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Post by allard » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 4:16 PM UTC

In Allo (and similar), if I begin with when, where, who..., a ? should magically appear at the right end of the line and float along there as the question fills.