[jsjohnst]

> But something more complicated where you really would like good voice control--like driving--not so much.

I’ve tried Alexa, Google, and Siri multiple times over the years while driving and it’s just embarrassing how over hyped all of them are and yet simple questions which a human could potentially easily answer in seconds doing a search (if not driving of course), but none of them even get close.

- How far away is that storm?

- How many miles to the state line?

- What timezone is Omaha in?

- Where’s the closest gas station that has diesel?

- What’s the top rated BBQ place in town?

[harvey9]

You can easily search how far away is that storm?

The others really ought to be voice searchable, but the diesel one would need to be timely in my area, where a couple of places have not had diesel available for several days.

[ghaff]

>You can easily search how far away is that storm?

Pull up radar on Weather Underground (and/or look at the hourly forecast) and you should have a pretty good idea.

Whether or not that's the best example, the point is that there are a bunch of things I might want to know/do while driving that I can't look up without pulling off the road someplace. And even if I could theoretically look them up by voice, it would probably be an exercise in frustration to try to do so.

[NoSorryCannot]

It's an interesting example because the question is very easy for a person to understand but giving an actual answer would take some time, but you can invert those for an AI.

But at least a human would give a reasonable answer, like "looks like at least thirty miles" or even just "I don't know". Your phone will instead say, oops, I didn't quite get that, try again later ( goodbye chime ). Which is terrible.

[jsjohnst]

> You can easily search how far away is that storm?

Yes, I have two apps I use for that depending on what form of “how far away” I’m looking for, Dark Sky (time) and RadarScope (distance).