I ask Siri to make phones calls and set a timer. I know these companies wanted us to use voice assistants more often but for me it was always faster to pick up my phone and do it myself. This reminds me of last year when articles were circulating about Amazons Alexa costing the company $3bn in the first quarter of 2022.
I tried using Bixby to set a calendar entry in 30 days and it spiraled into the question when the entry should be set. After 3 minutes trying everything I could think of (explicit date/time etc) I stopped and created the entry within seconds manually…
These assistants are interesting, when they work properly… :/
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Yeah true but I was curious what it could do. As it turned out… Not that much.
Ok Google, set an alarm for X minutes, or take me home. Those are literally the only two commands I’ve ever used I think. When I first got the phone I may have asked it to call my contacts a handful of times.
I mostly use Siri to send my wife texts while I’m driving. And it fucks up half the time.
Sad, with the emergence of GPT they should’ve find a way to combine it with GPT to actually have a smart assistant.
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Good, I never used the thing any way. I didn’t mind the feature existing, I just wish they wouldn’t keep trying to ram it down our throats. Now they’re trying the same with Bing AI, another neat thing I’ll likely never use.
As a Halo fan, it’s heartbreaking to see how Microsoft wanted to embrace the Halo universe and its obvious there was genuine passion to do this in the lead-up to Halo Infinite, and here we are now with Halo on life support and Cortana completely forgotten about.
I was excited when voice assistants first came out. Siri, cortana, google assistant. More than 10 years later and the technology just completely sucks. Even the simplest thing of trying to set a quick reminder on my phone is just quicker by doing it manually.
Well tbh, Cortana was really behind Google Assistant and Siri and have mostly not been updated in a couple of years.
Glad to see it’s being finally deprecated.
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Cortana was so far ahead of the competition when it launched on Windows Phone and really useful. But they messed it up with Windows 10 Mobile and even more so on desktop Windows.
