Let me rephrase this. I am feeling empathy for the Blue founder because I am in a similar position to show voice control to people and the overwhelming response is "cool, I'll use it while driving". And similar to people here, I don't like that conclusion. So I think it feels bad for the Blue founder to have people pile onto the driving detail that he likely already agrees with meanwhile people ignore the hardware accomplishment.
To me the point of voice control is walking. I'm thinking of Einstein, Darwin, Thoreau. They believed that physical activity helped stimulate his mind and spark creative thought.
You walk, you think, and occasionally you say something.
But in practice people have been quick to jump to conclusions that surprise me. Such as "the point is to try to kill people".
So I'm merely working backwards to figure out why people want to jump in a car first thing.
And the charitable explanation is the people are just not thinking to carefully and are just excited by seeing a computer respond to voice with a low enough error rate.
To me the point of voice control is walking. I'm thinking of Einstein, Darwin, Thoreau. They believed that physical activity helped stimulate his mind and spark creative thought.
You walk, you think, and occasionally you say something.
But in practice people have been quick to jump to conclusions that surprise me. Such as "the point is to try to kill people".
So I'm merely working backwards to figure out why people want to jump in a car first thing.
And the charitable explanation is the people are just not thinking to carefully and are just excited by seeing a computer respond to voice with a low enough error rate.