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Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I say, "Hey Siri, play Heigh Ho from the Cinderella Soundtrack". It probably doesn't help that "Heigh Ho" is from Snow White https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSj2h34ZrmY
Siri: "Here's Snow (Hey Oh) by Red Hot Chili Peppers" :smacks-forehead:
There are worse songs to accidentally get! That said, I sympathize. Given how easy it is to get, say, the passenger to put on a song, it's absurd how many hoops you have to jump through with any voice assistant to get it right.
For example, I often wish I could just queue up a song to play next like I can over touch, but there's no elegant way for me to do that without picking up my phone in the car. If my wife were riding with me, all I'd have to say is "Hey play [XYZ] next", a feat yet unmatched by any voice assistant
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#243Has any startup succeeded by starting out offering shiny hardware running innovative new software, all of which they have to develop? It seems like a fatal dilution of focus to have to worry about the design and logistics of a fancy dumb terminal widget when you also have to get the software/AI/app integration stuff right. Just make an app with text and voice interaction. Accept that the thing in our pockets with a s…
I don't think there has been a single successful hardware startup in the last decade, so the answer to your question is safely "no" without even going into specifics.
Which is sad, because I'm sure there's room for a lot more innovative devices in the world outside of a single glass rectangle in your pocket that everyone must plug into in some way. The economics of the industry just makes it very hard for them to survive, and we all lose out because of it.
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#244I'm not talking to computers still. It's a border I just can't cross. Like I'd literally rather stop and type on my car display than try to voice in a destination. And I'd if I'm cooking and my hands are greasy wash my hands and pick up my phone and tap in a timer for 5 minutes rather than try some "set timer for 5 minutes" voice command. Not sure I ever will start talking to computers, but not this year at least. An…
I would never do it in public, but I have gotten used to voice commands for a few things.
For example, adding things to our grocery list. It is quite handy to just say “add butter to the grocery list” when I am looking in the fridge. I am able to not stop cooking, but add things we need to the list as I find we are low.
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#245I'm not talking to computers still. It's a border I just can't cross. Like I'd literally rather stop and type on my car display than try to voice in a destination. And I'd if I'm cooking and my hands are greasy wash my hands and pick up my phone and tap in a timer for 5 minutes rather than try some "set timer for 5 minutes" voice command. Not sure I ever will start talking to computers, but not this year at least. An…
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#246The "keynote" (is that what we're calling advertising videos now?) was pretty awful, and I'm unconvinced that making people unable to even use smartphones (which has already supplanted computer literacy for most) is progress. Extra negative taste points for wanting a "cool SUV" for a trip to London.
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#247I'm not talking to computers still. It's a border I just can't cross. Like I'd literally rather stop and type on my car display than try to voice in a destination. And I'd if I'm cooking and my hands are greasy wash my hands and pick up my phone and tap in a timer for 5 minutes rather than try some "set timer for 5 minutes" voice command. Not sure I ever will start talking to computers, but not this year at least. An…
I'd buy a device just to do the timer setting, weather checking, and light control consistently and without selling my data. I have found it enormously useful and get frustrated/miss it when I don't have it. I also love the music playing feature but don't see how I can get that without being tracked/updates being pushed that require maintenance.
I have found that relying on these devices to have consistent usability when the processing is all done on the cloud and out of my control was a foolish mistake. I do wish I could revert my google home to ~two years ago.
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#248A weird cellphone that runs everything from the cloud? There's no way this isn't a nonfunctional brick in 18-36 months when they go bust.
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#249I'm not talking to computers still. It's a border I just can't cross. Like I'd literally rather stop and type on my car display than try to voice in a destination. And I'd if I'm cooking and my hands are greasy wash my hands and pick up my phone and tap in a timer for 5 minutes rather than try some "set timer for 5 minutes" voice command. Not sure I ever will start talking to computers, but not this year at least. An…
I agree that it's really dumb, especially in public.
I respect your feeling/position on this, but I don't understand it...
What feels "dumb" about it?
Is the perception of others towards you when you do this? Because that ship has sailed, people Vlog on the sidewalk and do TikTok videos in the subway, and Facetime their mom or brother at the grocery store or in the mall and have long video conversations with each other out loud..
I'm not saying this to be dismissive. As a GenX'er it took me a while to normalize this behaviour even to myself, but I've accepted now that these kinds of interactions with devices are just everyday occurrences and literally no one cares.
They can be obnoxious for sure, but just using TTS/Siri on your phone is like the nicest version of this interaction I can imagine. ;-)
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#250I'd prefer it as an app. I already have the hardware and there'd be no need for an additional card in the data plan.