assistants and wizards have been tried before with varying levels of success clippy tanked because it annoyed more than it helped, although some people did lik

assistants and wizards have been tried before with varying levels of success clippy tanked because it annoyed more than it helped, although some people did like it install wizards did their job in a world where a single binary format and OS dominated and stuff ran offline pretty much exclusively, with the odd connection to networks - those installers sorted a laundry list of situations, both underlying situations and user configurations and choices, and for the most part they worked Siri, Cortana, Alexa etc have been working as expert systems with central curated bases and some AI/ML on top, for a lot of people they've been working quite well - for me personally they've sucked, they've totally failed to answer my questions the few times I've tried them, and they've creeped the hell out of me (they are a lot more centred on extracting my info and selling me stuff than understanding stuff) generative ML is orders of magnitude more sophisticated, but so are our needs and our computing from a global perspective, it does make sense that those assistants, pilots, etc start taking off but the incentive issues of the previous generation assistants and recommendation algorithms remains there and I wonder how will that turn out - if they start demanding access to my phone, my email, my contacts etc I will do my best to avoid them and to poison any info I have to give them