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.
Cortana was pretty good at understanding me. Was much faster to use my voice than touch, for stuff like setting reminders and alarms. Or starting music (it understandably sucked at changing tracks, unless you had headphones).
I was excited for what else they would make it do. But it became clear MS only goal with it was to advertise stuff. And to US only. And when they failed that, they ripped out any useful features from it.
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.
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.
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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.
If they don’t rebrand their AI as Clippy2.0 I literally don’t know why their marketing team deserves a paycheque.
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.
Not fast enough
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