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I honestly can't see myself ever using something like this. Aside from any other considerations about the ethics of AI and how potentially creepy this device is... I'm a visual person. I don't even use voice controls, or indeed the actual phone call option on my phone unless I have to, because I process the world better by looking at it. Having to control a device primarily by talking to it rather than interacting with it via a visual display is a deal breaker for me.
I've only tried to use voice commands once or twice. I usually run into issues like
It's so much easier to press a button and read the information myself.
“Here’s what I found on the web for what time is it Siri”
"I searched Google to find ChatGPT, in order to ask it what time is it. The time is a continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future."