The state of AI voice assistants is bad but there's a clear winner

I like the UX of speaking to voice assistants and getting stuff done. Usually it involves something not so trivial and I do expect intelligence from the assistant. But the current state of AI voice assistants is bad! Either they are stupidly slow and unusable or quick but stupid. BUT. There's a clear winner. And the winner is Grok - I'm not going to hide it from the rest of the blog post. I'm assessing across these dimensions intelligence speed voice reliability and accuracy can I interrupt and does it filter out noise well not that important to me but the voice intonations and tone - is it human like or robot like? I only care about English for now so I'm ignoring multi lingual support. What I testedChatGPT voice This dude is close to useless. The IQ is very low because the underlying model is GPT 4o-mini - a 2 year old model that a local model today can beat easily. Not only is this model bad, it is also smug and wastes time with nonsensical filler words. I hate it the most. It does…