Microsoft Says AI Voice Command Needs More Work: Semafor

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says “there’s still a lot of work to be done to get computers to understand us,” he told Semafor last week in an interview.

• “But it’s not just about turning our words into text, we have to train the technology to understand what we mean,” he said about the company’s new voice transcription model, MAI-Transcribe-1

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