> “The reason this is exciting is it’s scalable,” he added. “We cannot afford to hire operators for the entire world to be their personal assistant.”<p>Why all the praise when the goal will look nothing like it looks now. They don't actually know that it's scalable, otherwise we'd be seeing a completely non-human dependent AI with limited functionality (like ordering food) first. The current approach is just getting more data to see if the real version can work at scale.
Reminds me of Google's 411 service back in the day. People thought "cool, Google is offering a free service". But Google was just collecting voice samples to train its voice recognition algorithms.
>If a user asks A, you respond B.<p>A user may never ask A. Or, a user may only ask A once; in which case, did we really need to pre-compute the answer?