After ChatGPT, why are voice assistants still so horrible?

Question

I just spent 15 frustrating minutes talking to Google Assistant asking simple questions that can easily be found on, mild shock, Google, and all I got was "sorry, I didn't understand".Same with Siri or even Alexa.Google Assistant was launched in 2016. ChatGPT is much younger and is already running circles around them with the plugins.Which evil force is making them so bad?

ftxbro · Accepted Answer

It's because speech to text, text to speech, and LLMs all have latency. They are working on it. There were rumors that Apple is spending a million dollars a day on its secret AI. Probably some form of it will go into Siri.

fsniper · Answer

My experience with Google Assistant is a disaster. I ask in English it answers in Turkish that it couldn't understand. I repeat in Turkish, it switches back to English and we can't move any further.

smoldesu · Answer

> Which evil force is making them so bad?First-party liability, probably. I doubt Apple or Google are interested in shipping an "assistant" that can't reliably distinguish fiction from fact.