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John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
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#232Lots of comments about improving Siri here. This is interesting to me for several reasons I won't address, but I will ask this: Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything? From a purely functional standpoint, they seem super awkward to me. I like buttons that click and reassure me of every input. I like to feel confident my actions won't be misinterpreted. I like that no one else near me will get weirded…
The number of times I've seen people using voice commands since Siri launched isn't more than 5 (except when people were experimenting with jokes and stuff). This may be specific to where I live idk.
I'd say we need 10-20 more years for voice assistants to be smoothly integrated with our daily lives. Until then big tech companies have just started the race (collecting data, enhancing experience) to be the best voice interface in the future.
From my point of view, users of our generation are just experimental subjects for currently unfunctional & uncommon but buzzed products like voice assistants and VR.
Re: John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
#233Reading the dumb things people in this thread go to the effort of making a voice controls for simply for the sake of using voice controls perfectly summarizes how useless voice control tech is. You're literally saving seconds of effort in order to open up yourself to an infinite amount of attack vectors. You deserve to be pwned.
Also the "Apple is gonna make voice control mainstream!" arguement in 2017+1 is hilarious. Apple has failed every new tech endeavor since the iPhone. The tablet, the smart watch, the touch bar, the ear pods, forcing usb3- everything has been a failure.
Was this sarcasm? Their tablet, watches and Airpods are all very well received and successful. I have the Watch and AirPods and they're great. As for USB, I assume you mean USB-C, what would you prefer? Another proprietary connector?
Re: John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is some potential concurrency: a woman can produce two or more babies in 9 months, although it is uncommon.
the process is not concurrent. it is still parallel.
Unless the child processes have different fathers, which can and does occasionally happen.
Re: John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
#235Lots of comments about improving Siri here. This is interesting to me for several reasons I won't address, but I will ask this: Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything? From a purely functional standpoint, they seem super awkward to me. I like buttons that click and reassure me of every input. I like to feel confident my actions won't be misinterpreted. I like that no one else near me will get weirded…
> Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything? Setting alarms and reminders
Also to request playing Downton Abbey. Although Alexa is sketchy about specific episodes and seasons. And no way can she understand "play the bit where Mary and Matthew are standing outside as it begins to snow"...
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
JG was _managing people_ doing the magic. There's a difference. By himself, he can't really do much. He's not even a ML/DL guy per se.
Uh, Jobs was not an engineer either, just a simple ol' manager, right? Managers don't have any power and capabilities, right?
ffs jg is an Engineer.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am skeptical when technologists say voice assisted systems will become the dominant interface at least in countries with a high rate of literacy. I just look at TV vs radio, texting versus calling, or audio books versus written content. I believe most studies indicate that people are better at visual comprehension versus auditory: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140312-audi... I know scientists lov…
More generally, I think the thing you are noticing is that visual and physical items offer random access. Compare trying to find a specific piece of information in a book, vs in some training DVD. If I'm just learning how to cook, watching a professional demonstrate the whole thing is going to be very helpful, but if I already know how to cook in general it's easier to flick to the right section of a book and scan th…
This is very well said and a great point. A lot of this relates to random access and which has an O(1) lookup. “Play season 2, episode 3” could be better as voice versus “if you want to reach reception, dial 1” is much better as an interface.
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#238It's just unbelievable to me that the company sitting on a quarter trillion dollars is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that hoard to hire the best of the best in order to fix the very thing that will kill their cash cow in the next 5 years. I'm on iOS myself (and have been faithful since the first iPhone), but $30 Google Home puck feels like it's from the future. Understands me perfectly, comes up with decent…
Apple cannot hire 'the best of the best'; those people are freaks and are probably not publicly presentable. The shareholders would not approve.
I used to work for Apple. Pretty diverse. Plenty of normal people and plenty of freaks.
Re: John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
#239Lots of comments about improving Siri here. This is interesting to me for several reasons I won't address, but I will ask this: Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything? From a purely functional standpoint, they seem super awkward to me. I like buttons that click and reassure me of every input. I like to feel confident my actions won't be misinterpreted. I like that no one else near me will get weirded…
> Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything? Siri plus shortcuts have made many mundane tasks easier. When I get in my car to come home from work I say "Hey Siri, heading home." That causes my phone to text my wife my arrival time and starts the last podcast I had playing. It's a simple thing, but is so much easier than texting and then thumbing through the podcast player to start where I left off. I ha…
> Siri plus shortcuts have made many mundane tasks easier. When I get in my car to come home from work I say "Hey Siri, heading home." That causes my phone to text my wife my arrival time and starts the last podcast I had playing.
Wait, you do what?
How can I get SIRI to do this for me? Can you explain how you got SIRI to do that?