I think people, including the author, vastly underestimate what will happen when things get cheaper. I think smart speakers are still a case of transcription/un

I think people, including the author, vastly underestimate what will happen when things get cheaper. I think smart speakers are still a case of transcription/understanding being cheap enough that we can do it for trivial things like turning on the lights. But I think ML is even more powerful, in situations where we learn from real world data rather than some human/programmatic data labeling, we can exceed the abilities of people. Google's recent ML for health stuff comes to mind where it's much better at humans at certain tasks.