Throwing Cold Water on ChatGPT
The late 2010s was witness to one the largest head fakes in consumer technology: voice-first or voice only interfaces. Tech pundits and analysts fumbled over themselves with projections that we would converse with speakers positioned around the house instead of looking at screens. Such an idea even permeated through several tech giants including Amazon and Google.
Scott Galloway, who gained a following in tech circles for his bold predictions, said in 2018 that a third of computing will be done on devices without a screen in 2020, with two thirds of that processed by Alexa. Of course, Galloway was wrong.
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