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Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, criticizes voice assistants such as Alexa, Siri and Cortana.

Satya Nadella has not been shy about criticizing voice assistants such as Cortana, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant. | Fountain: Microsoft

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Satya NadellaCEO Microsoftdid not skimp on harsh criticism of voice assistants, tk. Alexa, siri And up Cortana, which belongs to your company. While the firm’s current CEO was enthusiastic about the technology when it became popular, his opinion of it has changed radically in recent years, especially with the new interest his company is showing in ChatGPT and artificial intelligence applied in language models.

According to what the newspaper collected Financial Timeslast words Nadella regarding voice assistants show that the chapter Microsoft You are not satisfied with the work of voice assistants today. “They were all dumb as a stone. Cortana or Alexa or Google Assistant or siri, it just doesn’t work. We had a product that was supposed to be a new interface for a lot of information that didn’t work.”.

Satya Nadella changed his mind

Voice assistants became a sensation with the launch siri V Iphone 4s. Success Mansana tried to emulate other companies in the sector, including Microsoft. This firm wanted to repeat the success Cupertino With Cortana, your own voice assistant. In 2016 Satya Nadella He said that these bots have become a real revolution, and also assured that they will become “new applications.”

However, while the company has tried to seamlessly integrate its voice assistant into its tools and apps, it has never performed at the same level as siri. For this reason, almost 7 years after his original statement, his opinion has changed significantly, especially considering that the application from Cortana on cell phones was withdrawn and had fewer participants due to poor reception.

The decline of voice assistants and their possible resurgence

In the modern technology industry, there is no topic more relevant than ChatGPT And conversational artificial intelligencetwo sections in which Microsoft has shown interest and in which, in fact, has already invested exorbitant amounts of money. One of its apps could lead to a resurgence in voice assistants as the integration GPT-3 Thanks to the system of these characteristics, the bot can be able to communicate more naturally with the user.

Despite certain niches, cases such as Amazon With Alexa they were considered losers, even if their potential was enormous and the firm’s investment was quite large. Therefore, it seems that the future for voice assistants looks very promising due to the popularity of advanced language models, which can again become more flexible and complex than before.

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