And here I was a few months ago, looking at the rise of Large Language Models and ... expecting a resurgence of all these natural language assistants. I was e

And here I was a few months ago, looking at the rise of Large Language Models and ... expecting a resurgence of all these natural language assistants. I was expecting to see the effectiveness of these assistants go through a step change for the better, and use cases exploding. Expected the established players like Google and Amazon being able to finally justify building so many of them and selling them cheap with and uncertain pay-off all these years. Alas!