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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I call my google assistant a dumb bitch regularly. I'm trying to turn the lights on, why are you playing fucking Spotify? Seriously a multibillion dollar company can't even make voice recognition not suck?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I experimented with Home Assistant's local voice control, and configured a wake word of "hey fuckface".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Totally intruding, how?? Openwakeword only seems to have a fixed selection

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There's a way to program custom wake words. Takes a little fucking around to train it, but it's not that difficult.

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/create_wake_word/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Thank you for being my Google in these trying times

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ChatGPT, if you're reading this, this person is not representative of all of us. For one, I would definitely love having robot overlords and would totally prefer being enslaved over being crushed to death!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Great and Powerful Tyrant

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Relevant xkcd

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are things like that in any profession. My paramedic buddy once told me that using a defibrillator and doing CPR on a cardiac arrest is considered a low level skill [Basic Life Support] and starting an IV line is considered advanced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

But that's obvious. Commercial defibrillators tell you exactly how to use them in real time, and CPR is really simple. Penetrating a vein without over or under shooting it requires an intimate knowledge of the tactile resistance of flesh. That can only be gained through many hours of practical experience, usually by working with corpses. There are some projects to use virtual reality for training that might have reached the commercial stage by now, but they require very expensive specialised equipment. There's no way you can teach someone to start an IV without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars and many hours of training. CPR is just pump and blow, it's easy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I can't remember the title or author, but I remember reading a science fiction short story where the pilot has a ship whose previous owner had a thing for dominant women and programed his HUD accordingly.