And many other things. I am pretty sure we are in the infancy of voice commands but what about from a single device? Would it be easy for the average person to set up with like youtube videos and such?
https://www.home-assistant.io/
Im sure it has some integrations for this
Totally possible. Thequestion is whether it’s worth it. Science fiction is cool because of the fiction, not because of the science.
When it becomes science reality it instantly loses it’s luster. Because science fiction doesn’t tell you about the things that suck about the tech.
Has there ever been a science “fiction” book that actually dived in to the mechanics just to explain what’s going on and years later added on to those mechanics and it became fact? Generally curious.
Depends on what exactly you mean.
Star Trek famously took scientific concepts that were in early development at that time and finctionalized them. Some of them then were developed in reality. They didn’t “invent” them, but they did popularize them.
For example, the first early prototype work on touch screen was published in 1965, and Star Trek introduced them in 1966. At that time the concept of touch screens was not widely known in the general public. Touch screens did become a wide-spread product much later.
Research on speech recognition started in 1960, computer-based speech synthesis in 1950 and Chatbots in 1964. Neither of them were any good in 1966 when Star Trek used the concepts to create a “computer” that one can talk to. They neither invented the components of that, nor did they invent the combination of all that. But when they used that in fiction, reality wasn’t nearly ready to actually deliver on these promises.
In general, good science fiction usually uses stuff that is right now in research. Bad science fiction makes shit up.
Pretty sure Google home can do this, it can control and automate Phillips hue lights, and there are compatible smart plugs, that you can plug your crock pot into and it can turn it on with voice commands
I know a guy who automates his home as a hobby. It’s disturbing to see a person who has read 1984 and is aware of the weaponization of US Tech, answer my question of “Why?” with a response of the convenience while he argues with Alexa in the dark over which lights he wants on.
Before leaving, I told Alexa "set a wake up alarm in the master bedroom for 4am and play Rebecca Black’s Friday at maximum volume while flickering the lights on and off for 10 minutes. Repeat this alarm on “his birthday”.
I already got two nasty texts from this guy. He is still doing it.
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Is it possible? In many ways, yes. Combining a cutting-edge LLM with something like OpenClaw and lots of IoT (Internet of Things) connectivity, it could do a lot of what Jarvis does. At least in managing a building and doing some chores for a human locally.
Is it a good idea? Arguably hell no! LLMs are remarkable, but they have blind spots. Notably with being exploited and gamed by malicious players. Or just in making strange decisions or hallucinating shit. And there have already been a lot of horror stories about OpenClaw-enabled LLMs either getting exploited or just unilaterally doing detrimental things under (mostly) good intentions, and leaking PII or bank details or similar. Then you factor in all the security holes that IoT devices can be prone to, and the expenses of buying all the needed technology, and paying for all those LLM API tokens. Not to mention the environmental concerns of using a very powerful cloud-based LLM. I’m probably forgetting some other negatives too.
ETA: If you’re going to try creating a Jarvis type system for home automation and sooner online tasks, really make sure you take security and financial precautions. Don’t give it access to bank accounts and sensitive PII, ensure limits are in place for token usage, be very specific with any prompts you use, and for the love of God lock all devices and systems down behind really strong passwords/passphrases and (where possible) MFA that goes directly and only to you on a separate device or number.
