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chrisweekly • yesterday at 11:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

How about Alexa - given a "6 minute green beans timer" - later reporting 11m remaining on said timer? Confronted with the error, "You're right! That 6 minute green beans timer was too ambitious."??!!

I can't even.


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mrguyorama • today at 6:23 PM

We somehow, at some point, totally solved the problem of voice recognition, and then instead of just doing the initial shit we used to do when the problem was that speech parsing just wasn't good, we now chuck that perfect speech recognition into a completely fallible LLM, a shitty one at that, so it can ignore the perfectly captured and parsed speech!

What the hell is everyone smoking!