for now, the only good uses for voice recognition are searching for things on the TV and telling your car what to do. in the future though once computers can experience emotions like fear it will be useful for saying "If you ask if I want to upgrade to windows 11 again I will kill you"
"CoPilot, please upgrade my computer to Linux Mint"
Similarly, biological computers will be a really innovative breakthrough once they have pain receptors to detect when they're being hit to make them stop messing around and actually do the thing the user asked them to ten minutes ago.
Submitting this directly through the Microsoft feedback app brb.
This meme forever Also I swear if windows gives me another dialogue box where the only options are yes/maybe later I will scream
"Computer, if you don't open that exit hatch pretty damn pronto, I'll go to your databanks with a very large axe and give you a reprogramming you'll never forget."
Alt: Zaphod Beeblebrox (Mark Wing-Davey) in Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1980), with the second animatronic head, looking up and saying, "We are gonna be Amazingly Amazing!"
Most relatable post i saw on this website so far.
Speaking from experience, it is also useful for telling it (quietly) to turn off the lights and the TV at 3am when your baby has finally gone back to sleep and you want to do the same without putting him down, which will wake him up. (Yes, I was very carefully positioned!)
I maintain that insurance phone menus only recognize when I say “agent” when I sound exasperated
after i posted this i imagined shooting my computer with a handgun and god how good would that feel
i’m convinced this is already a thing 💀 ive seen it happen far too many times to be a coincidence