[schnitzelstoat]

Yeah, I'd hate to use this in an open-plan office (which is like 99% of offices these days) and even using it alone at home would feel awkward. I don't really want to talk to the computer despite what 1950's sci-fi books led us to believe.

It's a cool idea for the future when we have reliable EEG headsets or Neuralink or whatever though.

[Windchaser]

> I don't really want to talk to the computer despite what 1950's sci-fi books led us to believe.

I'll talk to a computer, even in an office setting, if it adds enough value. But it's got to be a lot of value. Handsfree while driving is great, Iron Man talking to Jarvis while he's flying around makes sense. Many of us here are developers, engineers, or scientists, and our work has already been co-optimized with mouse and keyboard and whatever software we're in.

But when the software is less well-developed, or when it's not just dealing with technical data dumps, I imagine that a voice interface might be more useful.

So I think this idea has legs. But a successful implementation might also well be decades out.

[PAndreew]

The only place I'd ever talk to a machine is my car. Instead of huge flashy screens that distracts and kills thousands of people maybe they could build a buttons + voice agent system that could actually be useful and durable. I hate to tap Waze/Maps/etc. every time when I go somewhere or that I cannot comfortably switch to specific songs en route without risking my life...

[schnitzelstoat]

I connect my iPhone to my car and it requires Siri to be enabled which I can then use to change songs, Google Maps destinations etc. without having to touch anything.

The Siri voice transcription is pretty awful compared to what I've experienced with ChatGPT though and it's weird going back almost to the pre-LLM world where you have to give such clear sort of computer-coded voice commands.