"Pixie, book that car service for me and remind them they promised a free brake fluid replacement"
"Pixie order all the ingredients I need to make my wife her favourite dish"
"Pixel, buy everyone in my family birthday presents"
I will 100% pay for that capability, and as someone that uses GPT4 to basically do my job for me, it really does not seem that far off. And I do think Google has an advantage here over Apple or anyone else, not just in Hardware, but in the enormous amount of data and information they have about both people in general, and specifically me.
Similar. Waited ages in Australia for the Y to arrive, then Elon went nuts, then real competition started to arrive. Everything from Audi to BYD here now, some even have buttons where buttons make UX sense.
I randomly chose a Spotify playlist recently called "Programming music". Was a few hours in, and was like, "hmmmm, this music sounds weirdly familiar", checked the playlist, it was a few hours of Deus Ex music! It was perfect to write code to!
Yeah the privacy issues are bit scary. Our app can only be installed by people who are in IRB approved studies, but the nature of the data collected means de-identifying it is impossible.
There is also the issue of what happens if it turns out we can predict things, it's a bit pre-cog ish. Depression and suicide are such massive problems though that new methods are absolutely needed.
Seeing if mental health crises can be predicted by gathering passive data from your phone. ( Accel, gyro, GPS, music choices, keyboard entries, app usage, sleep, facial expressions etc)
Lol. If you dropped the average westerner into Chennai, they would either: a) stop moving b) kill someone