The past few months in the tech world have been a whirlwind. One minute we’re amazed but not so impressed by Dall-E’s low-quality AI-generated images, the next we’re somehow chatting with Bing, our favorite new search engine. I can barely keep up. Every day there’s a new Twitter thread showing a groundbreaking AI tool, a new way to use ChatGPT or Midjourney, or a new capability built on top of ChatGPT’s API. And somehow we’re at ChatGPT 4 already? But through it all, one idea keeps coming back to me: Most of the time, I don’t need the AI when I’m staring at a screen; instead, I’d much rather have this ChatGPT-like conversational skill as a voice assistant in my Nest smart speakers.
And the reason for this is twofold. One, Google Assistant has always been slow to understand and answer any slightly complex question and it seems to be getting dumber by the minute. Two, a conversational AI makes more sense in a voice interface than on a screen. Let me elaborate.
