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Adam McMurchie
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Why are Digital Assistants so meh?

Why hasn't Siri, Bixby, Alexa or Cortana dominated human tech interaction as predicted in science fiction?

Who knows, but personally I think an AI assistant should be one that you don't have to prompt every time you need something, proactivity should be built into its core.

Lack of trust doesn't help matters either. Trust is hard to build, especially from giant tech corporations that essentially have a listening device which monitors your every word.
Then there are the screeds of confusing T&Cs that you don't even know what they are using your data for.

Long term this is unsustainable, there are 1001 AI assistants out there all with their own niches. I am just another fool to add to the list, though my hope is that AMU (my AI) will thread the needle of actual usefulness with something we can trust.

Beta sometime in 2023 but some Alphas available on my youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/c/mcmurchie

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