I use home assistant with the extended open ai integration from HACS. Let me tell you, it’s orders of magnitude better than generic voice assistants. It can understand fairly flexibly my requests without me having a literal memory of every device in the house. I can ask for complex tasks like turning every light in the basement on without there being a zone basement by inferring from the names. I have air quality sensors throughout and I can ask it to turn on the fan in areas with low air quality and if literally does it without programming an automation.
Usually Alexa will order 10,000 rolls of toilet paper and ship them to my boss when I ask it to turn on the bathroom fan.
Personally tho the utility of this level of skill (beginner grad in many areas) for me personally is in areas I have undergraduate questions in. While I literally never ask it questions in my field, I do for many other fields I don’t know well to help me learn. over the summer my family traveled and I was home alone so I fixed and renovated tons of stuff I didn’t know how to do. I work a headset and had the voice mode of ChatGPT on. I just asked it questions as I went and it answered. This enabled me to complete dozens of projects I didn’t know how to even start otherwise. If I had had to stop and search the web and sift through forums and SEO hell scapes, and read instructions loosely related and try to synthesize my answers, I would have gotten two rather than thirty projects done.
Usually Alexa will order 10,000 rolls of toilet paper and ship them to my boss when I ask it to turn on the bathroom fan.
Personally tho the utility of this level of skill (beginner grad in many areas) for me personally is in areas I have undergraduate questions in. While I literally never ask it questions in my field, I do for many other fields I don’t know well to help me learn. over the summer my family traveled and I was home alone so I fixed and renovated tons of stuff I didn’t know how to do. I work a headset and had the voice mode of ChatGPT on. I just asked it questions as I went and it answered. This enabled me to complete dozens of projects I didn’t know how to even start otherwise. If I had had to stop and search the web and sift through forums and SEO hell scapes, and read instructions loosely related and try to synthesize my answers, I would have gotten two rather than thirty projects done.