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

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Post by cool-RR »

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?

There isn't even an enumerated list of all the features of the Google search engine (i.e. quotes for full expression, minus to rule out words etc.) And this might be the most popular web service in the world!

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Post by SimonPStevens »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #9

I remember an Asimov short story in which scientists developed a machine that could see backward in time. If I recall correctly, the upshot was the government became terrified because any machine that can see 1000 years into the past can also see 1000 milliseconds into the past and therefore functionally be used to spy on anyone in real time.

Different author, but sounds somewhat similar to 'The Light of Other Days' by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter.

Although iirc correctly it starts with being able to see other locations in space but at the same time, and the historical viewing is a second development.

Fantastic book, even if it's not the same one you were thinking of.

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Post by ninkendo »

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?

Not sure what side of the debate you're taking here, but I think you've outlined the issue perfectly.

Engineers: "We couldn't have a list of commands, that's not how humans work, you're supposed to treat Alexa like a human, and the possibilities are endless"

Users: "Ok, then. Alexa, take out the trash."

Alexa: "Sorry, I can't do that."

(Ok, so obviously the possibilities aren't endless, right?)

I can somewhat understand general knowledge queries. For those, you can totally make the case that there's just too many things you can ask about to enumerate them all.

But imperative commands, like sending text messages, setting timers, or home automation? There's a finite list of those, since at the end of the day they actually have to be authored by some human who's writing a (say) Alexa skill. The number of utterances that may map to those skills are unbounded, but the number of skills aren't. So yes, at the end of the day, for "command" like things, they really should be able to give a list of them.

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Post by MezzoDelCammin »

recuter wrote: post #20
albertzeyer wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 pronunci…

Anyone reminded of XKCD's "Up goer five" strip (https://xkcd.com/1133/), or is it just me?

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Post by adamgordonbell »

An off the shelf solution for recording your whole life:

I have a Sony recorder, ICD-UX570, and it has a setting where it turns on or off based on sound, and also adjusts the gain to best record. It takes a micro-SD card and has pretty solid battery.

I think you could put it in a breast pocket and run it for several days on a single charge. Because it would just record when you are talking or making noises you could likely run it for a year on a big SD card recording in mp3.

Change to a wifi SD card and suck the files off and process them and you might have something kind of cool.

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Post by unstatusthequo »

moritonal wrote: post #25

Handling the privacy of other people might be oddly easy. If you can detect the voice accurately enough the AI might be able to _drop_ the other participants.

Dropping after the fact still means it was recorded, this violating two party notice statutes.
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