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I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by ninkendo »

Waterluvian wrote: post #2

> My biggest problem with “OK Google” is that I don’t know by heart what it can do interactively Maybe it’s just me but this feels unaddressed and that seems ridiculous. Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with?

> Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with?

The likely answer here is that the engineers who work on such products would scoff at the idea that their work amounts to a simple list of commands. In their minds, they’re working on a natural language virtual assistant, whose understanding of user input is “intelligent”, and it should know what you want regardless of how you phrase it. Want to do something? Just ask! Treat it as if it's a person! The possibilities are endless!

Never mind that its actual functionality (y’know… the things it can do when it understands you) is embarrassingly finite and boils down to a “list of commands” anyway.

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by alexmolas »

(Slightly off topic) If you click in the "RoberDam.com" link that appears when you scroll a little bit you get redirected to "http://localhost:8080/".

It seems to only happen in the English page. In the Spanish version of the post the link works well.

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by commitpizza »

PaulHoule wrote: post #3

If you are going through that much trouble you might as well get a WiFi scale, wear a tracker that has an API, etc. I’ve definitely thought about taking speech-to-text notes at work, nice to see somebody did it.

Well yes, but this is a much cheaper option. Instead of having many smart gadgets you only need one. The mobile phone or some other microphone but that is the most obvious option.

Instead of paying hundreds of dollars for all these gadgets that have to be charged and kept safe you can buy cheap variants and still have basically the same benefits.

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by ceejayoz »

selfhoster11 wrote: post #6
Forge36 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Third party integrations? It's both a static list (available to everyone) and a dynamic list (available only to you). Having seen all the dead products at Google. Who would get rewarded for this/compensated? Would the complexity in building the list increase ongoing costs with an unclear return on investment?

Presumably, there is a list somewhere in Google’s internal documentation. All we’re asking for, is for them to copy and paste it from that documentation, clean it up a bit, and post it online.

There probably isn’t. There’ll be some hard coded “if this, say that”, but there are a lot of trained responses in the models that won’t be as simple as that.

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by sorwin »

How would this work with other voices, like a coffee shop, would it hear those simultaneously, and interupt a command?

Also, how do you handle using OpenAi whisper, seems like they do 30 second intervals - would that be an issue if your command is cut off mid word?

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by albertzeyer »

ninkendo wrote: post #11
Waterluvian wrote: post #2

> My biggest problem with “OK Google” is that I don’t know by heart what it can do interactively Maybe it’s just me but this feels unaddressed and that seems ridiculous. Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with?

> Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with? The likely answer here is that the engineers who work on such products would scoff at the idea that their work amounts to a simple list of commands. In their minds, they’re working on a natural language virtual assistant, whose understanding of user input is “intelligent”, a…

Yes, is there a list of every command a human can execute or can work with?

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Post by bheadmaster »

alexmolas wrote: post #12

(Slightly off topic) If you click in the "RoberDam.com" link that appears when you scroll a little bit you get redirected to " http://localhost:8080/ ". It seems to only happen in the English page. In the Spanish version of the post the link works well.

Good catch. There seem to be several "http://localhost:8080/" strings in the page source. Leftover code from testing?

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by recuter »

albertzeyer wrote: post #18
ninkendo wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with? The likely answer here is that the engineers who work on such products would scoff at the idea that their work amounts to a simple list of commands. In their minds, they’re working on a natural language virtual assistant, whose understanding of user input is “intelligent”, a…

Yes, is there a list of every command a human can execute or can work with?

Yes, actually, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English

  If one were to take the 25,000 word Oxford Pocket English Dictionary and take away the redundancies of our rich language and eliminate the words that can be made by putting together simpler words, we find that 90% of the concepts in that dictionary can be achieved with 850 words. 

  The shortened list makes simpler the effort to learn spelling and pronunciation irregularities. The rules of usage are identical to full English so that the practitioner communicates in perfectly good, but simple, English.

  We call this simplified language Basic English, the developer is Charles K. Ogden, and was released in 1930 with the book: Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar.
Even Includes 200 picturables: http://ogden.basic-english.org/wordpic0.html

"A widely known 1933 book on this is a science fiction work on history up to the year 2106 titled The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells. In this work, Basic English is the inter-language of the future world, a world in which after long struggles a global authoritarian government manages to unite humanity and force everyone to learn it as a second language."

- Sounds pretty close to Siri and the other digital assistants to me. Ever watch people from none English countries use their smartphones? Not all of it is implemented yet but this is almost all you need to run an empire.

Here it is deployed in favor of much needed disciplinary action for two Scottish people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOUTfUmI8vs

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