Comment by ravenstine

Dragon Naturally Speaking was, ironically, more flexible than today's voice tech besides the fact that it wasn't internet-connected (I think?). It's not like you can attempt to write an essay with Alexa or control a browser window with it. What's also funny is how we have this narrative that cloud computing is a necessity for AI, and yet Dragon had NLP that fit on a CD-ROM. Ok, maybe it came on multiple discs... I'm forgetting, but my point still stands.

Most of our advances have been in marketing rather than substance.

The current generation of AI/ML may change that in some way. Dragon Naturally Speaking may have been a thing in the 90s, but I'm pretty sure we didn't have anything close to GPT or Stable Diffusion.