It’s already relatively simple to make a customized chat bot tweaked on personal data to have focused conversations. Once the tools are ironed out and simplified, it’s definitely going to be possible. I’m just not sure the demand will be there.
These things will be insanely useful as they improve. I've always found Google's assistant fairly useful, even just answering basic searchable questions and performing basic tasks. The LLMs that are available now have a way better grasp on natural language and thus a much better ability ability to comply with your requests.
The ability to talk to your home assistant like you would a secretary instead of a computer will be a game changer. There comes a point for (almost) everyone where convenience and utility will outweigh the privacy concerns and inertia required to get started. I think having a personal secretary that has a great understanding of your commands and an understanding of your needs and the ability to interact with your online services for you in complex ways is going to check that box.
People scoffed when it was said that everyone would have a mobile phone back in the day the technology was in it infancy. And they said the same thing about home computers. That’s changed in only the last what? 40 years? From Atari ST to GPT
It’s entirely plausible if the technology is refined and becomes more accessible and useful for it to be commonplace
People scoffed when it was said that everyone would have a mobile phone back in the day the technology was in it infancy.
Everyone remembers their wins, few mention their losses.
That is not directed at you but at the tech sector in general, they are always predicting the next revolution and they are wrong way more times then they are correct.
The Segway was going to revolutionize transport as we know it. Now?... They are as big a joke as the mall cops that are their major users.
3G mobile phones were going to usher in an age of video calls, instead everyone fell in love with texting.
3D has been the future of movies/video at least 3 times in the last 50 years.
Massive VR/AR adoption has been 3 years away for the last 20.
Personal AI assistance may happen but I doubt it is in any form that we know now.
I worked on the 3G roll out for a national telco, video calls were the major focus of the marketing and branding message.
Whether Gen 1 3G was ever capable of delivering on that message is a totally different topic. For a recent example see the messaging vs reality around FB metaverse.
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