> Is it just me or does it seem like these tasks would be not all that hard if you just, you know, programmed them rather than trying to be so fancy with ML? T

> Is it just me or does it seem like these tasks would be not all that hard if you just, you know, programmed them rather than trying to be so fancy with ML? That's how you do it at the moment. For example, in Google home you have "Routines"[1] which are a list of sequential actions triggered by a key phrase (or optionally something else). [1] https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7029585 https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7029585?