Eight months ago, LinkedIn co-founder and former CEO Reid Hoffman confessed: “I am voicepilled.”
He argued that talking instead of typing was the next great leap in computing. Being “voicepilled,” he said, was the epiphany that you can be vastly more productive and creative when not bogged down by the Victorian-era contraption known as the typewriter ,or its modern version, the PC keyboard.
What’s changed is the rise of super high-quality AI-based speech-to-text tools, which not only capture what you say, but figure out what you intended to say, erasing your “ums” and “ahs” and tweaking your sentences automatically to be more articulate.
The best example for this category of voice application on the desktop is Wispr Flow, which launched Sept 30, 2024. Other products include Superwhisper, MacWhisper, and others.
In recent weeks, some mainstream news outlets have noticed the rising phenomenon of voicepilling. For example, The Guardian published a piece earlier this month headlined, “T
Chatting with readers and regular folks in the real world these days, I can’t help but notice a common theme anytime the topic of AI comes up.
It’s an almost amusingly extreme contrast: While the myopic world of tech people (and the type of mostly AI-powered “thought leaders” you see posting in turbo-speed on LinkedIn) are waxing endlessly about AI’s amazing impact on society and all the ways it’s, like, totally revolutionizing workflow, bruh, the average human’s take on AI can best be summed up with a single word:
Exasperation.
With shockingly little exception, almost every non-tech-obsessed organism I interact with reacts with something between an eye-rolling sigh and a fed-up facepalm whenever the prevalence of AI arises. It’s almost like having an on-demand in-person GIF gallery of “frustration” available at your fingertips — just mention AI, and you’ll get a meme-worthy reaction from anyone around you.
It’s such a dramatic divergence from the glowingly excited hype we hear left an
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