And at the same time we've got Siri, Alexa/Amazon Echo stuff, and Google Home stuff that already feels dated and is actively getting worse with each passing year.
Funny that these two things are happening at the same time.
> And at the same time we've got Siri, Alexa/Amazon Echo stuff, and Google Home stuff that already feels dated and is actively getting worse with each passing year.
Initially, when they were new, also Siri, Alexa and Google Home felt mindblowing and "truly like the future". My bet: in a few years these LLMs will feel similarly dated.
Concerning your "is actively getting worse with each passing year" point: do you remember these HN posts from the last months where people were complaining that ChatGPT and GPT-4 have become worse than they were initially? In other words: it's already happening. :-)
Recall that recently Google removed the image generation feature from Gemini after the diversity controversies. :-)
Strong disagree on that one. It was difficult to get them to do simple things like give the weather if a different location, play the right song. Even asking what time it is wasn't guaranteed to give you an answer if you didn't ask the right way. The marketting material made it sound great but the first hand experience was very underwhelming. The biggest use case at launch was making it say funny things.
We've seen a similar thing with big companies putting in LLM chatbots for customer service -- turns out LLMs can go off the rails really easily with the right prompts.
Huh. Apparently not. I wonder why.