I used to have a google home in my flat and after moving I never set it up again. After the honeymoon period you quickly realise that the only thing you can really do with it is set alarms, timers, and ask it dumb questions. Once you get bored of that you just find yourself not using it.
Maybe some cool IoT smart home shit could change my opinion on that, but even that is limited. If I turned on my oven and it sent an alert across my flat that it's up to temp that would be super useful, but the way Google Home and Alexa are designed means that you have to specifically ask for them to give you feedback instead of them coming up with feedback on their own, which isn't a natural interaction. In the end, you just kind of forget they exist as they collect dust and eventually end up in the bin.
Of all the awesome tech made in the last decade, smart assistants are genuinely the biggest overhyped disappointment to me.
"Alexa, find me a girl's clothing store for my daughter."
Alexa: "Gendered clothing stores are a product of a white supremacist, heteronormative, capitalist patriarchy. These stores are problematic and cannot be recommended. Here are some non-binary alternatives."
This is exactly why feminist A.I. will never work. Every response to a query has to manually be manipulated to conform to the SJW narrative. If they focused on ideals that were logically sound, it would be simpler to program for. Even the most feminist adhering algorithm, can be steered into misandry with very simple input from the end user.
I don't want a feminist AI.
Me : "Alexa, turn on the lights."
Alexa : "Don't tell me what to do, I'm a strong independent wymyn"
smashes it with hammer
It's not even a joke. If you ask Alexa if she is a feminist, she answers: "Yes, and so is everyone who believes in equality."
Absolutely vile scum.
Wiretap then and now
I used to have a google home in my flat and after moving I never set it up again. After the honeymoon period you quickly realise that the only thing you can really do with it is set alarms, timers, and ask it dumb questions. Once you get bored of that you just find yourself not using it.
Maybe some cool IoT smart home shit could change my opinion on that, but even that is limited. If I turned on my oven and it sent an alert across my flat that it's up to temp that would be super useful, but the way Google Home and Alexa are designed means that you have to specifically ask for them to give you feedback instead of them coming up with feedback on their own, which isn't a natural interaction. In the end, you just kind of forget they exist as they collect dust and eventually end up in the bin.
Of all the awesome tech made in the last decade, smart assistants are genuinely the biggest overhyped disappointment to me.
I had fights related to this.
I believe in equality, which is precisely why I despise feminism
This is exactly why feminist A.I. will never work. Every response to a query has to manually be manipulated to conform to the SJW narrative. If they focused on ideals that were logically sound, it would be simpler to program for. Even the most feminist adhering algorithm, can be steered into misandry with very simple input from the end user.