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>if they could simply ask their computer “what was my banking password?”

And the computer would reply "I'm sorry, I have no record of Baking Pastor", based on how well these AI assistants understand me.

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As 99.99% of HN comments are based on 5-10 year old data, how recently and which chatbot you asked?

Alexa. This week.

As of yesterday Siri still fails to distinguish “fifteen” and “fifty” about half the time when I set a timer, even when I’m careful about enunciation.

Perhaps a day will come when tools like Siri will ask for a confirmation whether you meant "fifteen" or "fifty" instead of making a guess when they aren't fully certain that they heard you correctly.

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