Everyone Needs an AI Phone. No, Don't Hang Up, It's True
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I commute on a motorcycle, and a decade or more ago, when I had a Nokia phone running Symbian, I could tap the button on my Bluetooth intercom, ask it to call someone, confirm it heard me correctly, and complete the call. I could then tap the button, ask to navigate to an address, and get directions.
With modern phones, when they mishear you, they immediately call the wrong person, out of "convenience". When I try to navigate with voice commands, prompts show up on my phone display, which I cannot tap or even see, because my phone is safely stored under my seat.
I have stopped using voice assistants, because the more technology that goes into them, the less usable they get. More capability isn't always better. There's a reason air traffic controllers only use a small subset of English vocabulary and grammar.