I was going to read this Sam Altman blog post that everyone‘s been linking to yesterday. I think it‘s about the future, and how the crazy shit that is happening now is nothing because soon humans will be out numbered by robots, so we ain‘t seen nothing yet. Ok I did glance at the first paragraph. Anyway, I was very caught up in other stuff, it was lunch time and so I needed something to listen to while I prepared lunch, so figured I could multi-task. How hard could it be to get my Android phone to read a webpage to me? This is the age of AI and robots and what have you right?
Spent 35 minutes googling, ai-ing, searching through settings, literally nothing worked. It was kind of funny because the AI said to use the phone‘s voice assistant which I did, and the phone‘s voice assistant said sure no problem just give me the url, which is odd given the AI said that it would know automatically based on the context, but anyway the assistant openned up a text box presumably for me to paste the url into. So I did, and it went off and did a text based summary, and so I asked why it didn‘t read it aloud and it said it couldn‘t do it because it was a text based AI, so I then asked it why it didn‘t do the thing it said for me to do, and it started asking me to change settings and it was basically a total waste of nearly an hour, and probably would have broken my phone had I not stopped. I also would have starved to death.
Is the voice assitant an AI? Why is it talking to me with audio, clearly being an audio based tool, then the next minute it‘s saying it‘s text based? What the fuck is that about?
No, I‘m not going to read the article now, because this is fucking stupid. We cannot even do email, notes and basic automation in a bulletproof way, and now we are building AIs that lie to our faces? Surely we are on a very precarious path right now? #