Erik: Although I agree with a good deal of what you say here, I also have to put forward the idea that even what the AI submits as a reflection of your own feelings about this hotel is far better than a series of questions which can be answered by filling in one of five or even 10 small circles.
And because of that, I think that it's a better choice for the hotel in trying to understand how their customers feel about their stay. In short, it may be imperfect, but it's better than what we settled for for many of our interactions right now.
I don't use these writing aids either, but then I'm an old guy. Pretty much set in my ways. And I still like two spaces after a period more than a single space. I haven't found a way to adjust the speech to text function on this phone to accomplish this kind of spacing, but if they ever make it available, I will certainly use it.
And then I think of how many old guys there are that's still write ... and the willingness of the people who are responsible for this feature to institute such a change. It seems pretty clear that I will be stuck with what I've got.
Most of my argument isn't with the hotel corporation, but with Mozilla's Firefox and probably Google's Chrome and no doubt Microsoft's Explorer. Or, as you point out, the current state of things. Embedding AI in browsers, and having that AI ingest, filter and regurgitate opinion without all sorts of flags or alerts that this is going on will make us less literate, and the information less valuable, over time. Just one person's opinion.
I'm with your daughter.
From Jon Renner:
Erik: Although I agree with a good deal of what you say here, I also have to put forward the idea that even what the AI submits as a reflection of your own feelings about this hotel is far better than a series of questions which can be answered by filling in one of five or even 10 small circles.
And because of that, I think that it's a better choice for the hotel in trying to understand how their customers feel about their stay. In short, it may be imperfect, but it's better than what we settled for for many of our interactions right now.
I don't use these writing aids either, but then I'm an old guy. Pretty much set in my ways. And I still like two spaces after a period more than a single space. I haven't found a way to adjust the speech to text function on this phone to accomplish this kind of spacing, but if they ever make it available, I will certainly use it.
And then I think of how many old guys there are that's still write ... and the willingness of the people who are responsible for this feature to institute such a change. It seems pretty clear that I will be stuck with what I've got.
Jon
Most of my argument isn't with the hotel corporation, but with Mozilla's Firefox and probably Google's Chrome and no doubt Microsoft's Explorer. Or, as you point out, the current state of things. Embedding AI in browsers, and having that AI ingest, filter and regurgitate opinion without all sorts of flags or alerts that this is going on will make us less literate, and the information less valuable, over time. Just one person's opinion.