[Swizec]

> It seems that if we ultimately want to "move at the speed of thought," it will require speech.

Except for the large majority of people who read, type, and click way faster than they can talk. Especially for visual things it’s way faster to drag a rectangle than to describe what you want.

A lot of us also aren’t linear verbal thinkers. It would take minutes to hours to verbalize concepts we can grasp visually/schematically in seconds.

Great book on the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60149558-visual-thinking

[svachalek]

Most people speak at about 150 wpm, but very few can type that fast. But reading and gesturing are fast, which is what TFA is about, combining reading and gesturing with speech.

[Swizec]

You rarely need 150wpm when typing. If you try dictation, you’ll notice that half those words are error correction and checksum bits and just turn taking filler.

I usually convey the same meaning with 80wpm typing. Makes it faster to read too

Maybe I’m just slightly adhd – listening to people talk drives my crazy. Get to the point! Much easier if they type it out

[dkersten]

> listening to people talk drives my crazy.

People have so many verbal tics and filler words too. Anthropic’s Dario says “you know” after every third word, for example.

Or they meander around unrelated/unimportant details.

[anon84873628]

Isn't "drag the rectangle" and visual interaction exactly the point of the research in the article? Speech is the perfect side channel to this interaction, not a context switch to text.

Also, I doubt DeepMind is designing for existing programmers and savvy computer users. They are thinking about the other billions of people in the world. Speech is the skill people will already have, not typing.