Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) “In the I/O section, Licklider also muses about adapting computers to human inter” — TopicDigg

In the I/O section, Licklider also muses about adapting computers to human interfaces, in this case automatic speech recognition. Here, Licklider is significantly over-optimistic on capabilities, estimating 5 years to get it working. Here we are !!! 64 YEARS !!! later, and while speech recognition programs are plentiful, they have not worked nowhere near well enough to make this a dominant computing paradigm of interaction with the computer. Indeed, all of us were excited when just two years ago with the release of Whisper. Imagine what Licklider would think of this reality. And even with the dramatic improvements to the quality recently, ASR is nowhere near perfect, still gets confused, can't handle multiple speakers well, and is not exactly on track to a dominant input paradigm sometime soon.