~~60% of adults in US have digital assistants? I find that hard to beleive~~. Or is it 60% of people who use digital assistant, use it for the weather? (EDIT: it is the second option, mentioned in the graph) The graph does not have "I don't use an assistant" in it, and it's not mentioned anywhere in the article (tho I only skimmed it), so it's just a clickbait headline.
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The point of the article is that people aren’t using it for what these ad companies want, which is selling shit to consumers. They’re using it for the exact same stuff they were using it for 7 years ago, which is basic ass shit that could be an open source project.
How expensive would it be to have an open source non internet connected timer in the kitchen ?
I’ve tried… it’s pretty fucking expensive. And the only project that I know of that was even close…the creator/maintainer died and so the project is in limbo now. The requirements for ‘quick’ response was a nvidia 30+ series gpu. I have a 3080 and the response still wasn’t as fast as my Siri or Alexa. And it was also super limited, that was just for voice recognition and parsing using Willow which uses Whisper under the hood.
Along with that, I haven’t seen any open source or freely available far reach microphones, so the “body” I was using only worked if you were quite close or yelled.
Ah rip :(
Yeah it really sucks. This is the one instance where open source hasn’t really been able to compete for over a decade.
And this revolutionary, life changing invention cost only as much as the GDP of several small nations.
meanwhile I look outside with my eyeballs
And you see tomorrow's weather? Jokes aside, for me it's on my phone's homescreen
I look outside tomorrow...why do I care about rain tomorrow when I can't change it. I'll adapt when I need too. if I get wet..whatever. it's water.
All this tells me is that the majority of adults are dumb as fuck.
Installing listening devices in your own home on purpose is just fucking stupid.
Oh, ffs. 🤦🏼