Can You Already See Bird-brain Research in Siri, Alexa, and Google?

Brad Stone asks Sarah McBride, at the end of Bloomberg's Decrypted, whether it is too early to hear a zebra finch inside Alexa, Siri, or Google's voice assistant. McBride says some of the research is already visible, in voice recognition and in better audio quality. She thinks the biggest consequences are still ahead. The episode's reporting had followed zebra-finch neuroscientists out of university labs and into companies such as Intel, Google, Apple, and Amazon, including Tim Gardner's move from Boston University to Neuralink. McBride's answer is the cautious one. You can see the early applications. The larger transfer from bird brains to machines had not arrived yet.