I just don't think any corporation is capable of making a voice assistant that anyone actually wants to use.
The problem is that it cannot be profitable, which is not something that modern capitalism can tolerate. The only revenue generating actions a voice assistant can take involve advertising or selling something, which is not something that anyone wants.
Users of voice assistants want to use their device hands free to do trivial things like controlling widgets, setting timers, doing simple web searches. These actions cannot be monetized, so the corporation has a decade-long crisis trying to game users into revenue generating actions.
This leads us to today. All voice assistants are useless spy engines that exist only to tell you about the more profitable things you can do with them and sell any data you accidentally give them.
With an LLM backend, the cost of running the service skyrockets and the profitability crisis will only get much worse.
What happens when siri costs 1000x to operate and still has the same usability and user count as on-device siri? Is Apple management even aware of that question?
This is probably the death-knell for siri, Alexa, et al. One hopes, anyway.
The problem is that it cannot be profitable, which is not something that modern capitalism can tolerate. The only revenue generating actions a voice assistant can take involve advertising or selling something, which is not something that anyone wants.
Users of voice assistants want to use their device hands free to do trivial things like controlling widgets, setting timers, doing simple web searches. These actions cannot be monetized, so the corporation has a decade-long crisis trying to game users into revenue generating actions.
This leads us to today. All voice assistants are useless spy engines that exist only to tell you about the more profitable things you can do with them and sell any data you accidentally give them.
With an LLM backend, the cost of running the service skyrockets and the profitability crisis will only get much worse.
What happens when siri costs 1000x to operate and still has the same usability and user count as on-device siri? Is Apple management even aware of that question?
This is probably the death-knell for siri, Alexa, et al. One hopes, anyway.