Why would they need to listen? That's a lot of processing power for information we already give them. They don't need to listen, honestly. They get more information from us than we verbally communicate.

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Why would they need to listen? That's a lot of processing power

But... why would they care? It's your energy bill, not theirs.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think about this every time I see a random thing I have never heard of before and go to search for it and autofill has the exact phrase I wanna search after typing only 1 or 2 letters. It either reads text on the screen or listened to me say to myself "what the hell is yadda yadda?" because how else would it know I had a really good chance of searching "what is yadda yadda" after only typing "wh?" The yadda yadda part could have been anything, but it still managed to predict the exact thing I was gonna look for.

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I always just thought it was the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon at work… but who knows, I could be wrong.