True, and yet people employ other people to do things for them and get them to do things simply by talking to them. That works because a smart enough person doe

True, and yet people employ other people to do things for them and get them to do things simply by talking to them. That works because a smart enough person doesn't need to be given a lot of detail and will understand things from some very high level instructions; or even do things proactively. AI is heading in a direction where it won't need a whole lot of micro managing to be useful. Things like Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri are as of now completely obsolete. They were nice five years ago but it got stuck with use cases that are a combination of low value and unimaginative. I mainly use this stuff to do things like setting alarms and timers. Reason: it seems good enough to do that and I don't like messing with my phone when I'm cooking some food since I have to wipe my hands first. Doing better than that requires a deeper understanding of language (check) and context (no meaningful integrations yet, but seems doable). It's not really going to replace a normal UI but it would be more like managing somebody doing something on your behalf. You are not using, but directing and guiding. The AI does most of the work. It's not tedious because you get results more quickly than anything you would be able to do using any kind of UI. I'd love an AI secretary that can take simple prompts and prepare emails that reply to other emails, summarize what's in my unread messages, or figure out a good slot in my calendar to invite some people to. This is annoying if you have to go into each application and then type out what you want and then triple check what comes back before sending it off. But that's not how you would work with a human secretary either. You'd give high level prompts, "send them a reply that I'm not interested", "are there any messages that need my attention", "what's a good slot for meeting X to discuss Y ... can you set up the meeting". These are fairly simple things that well paid executives actually pay people to do. An AI would maybe not be able to do all of these things perfectly right now. But it could compose a message and then allow you to edit and send. Or it could summarize some information for you and give you the highlights. Etc. You could do that over a phone while on the move or just talking to a device. I don't think we're that far away from something usable in this space. I'd use it if something like that came along and worked well enough. And I have a hunch that this could become a lot better than just that fairly soon. So MS, the world's largest provider of tools used by secretaries, investing in and partnering with OpenAI. This stuff is so obvious that they must have more than a few people with half a brain that figured out something similar ages ago. I would not be surprised to see them launch something fairly concrete fairly soon. Maybe it will fail. Or maybe they get something half decent working.