Cyan comments on Kurzweil's predictions: good accuracy, poor self-calibration - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 July 2012 09:55AM

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Comment author: Cyan 11 July 2012 01:54:04PM *  2 points [-]

I've never personally seen anyone use voice recognition to write documents of any length or even to send texts (a few personal experiments with Siri notwithstanding).

I agree with your judgment of the prediction; however it's worth noting that the technology exists. The principal investigator of my former research group had problems with his hands caused by excessive typing, so he used voice recognition software to write journal papers.