Tech companies have been trying to automate the personal assistant since at least the 1970s, and now, they promise they’re finally getting close.
Indeed. [[AI personal assistants 20201011124147]] https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/10/narrow-band-digital-personal-assistants/ We should start with the personal here, wrt automation, not the AI to get to quicker results: [[small band AI personal assistant]] where the personal limits the range of possible inputs for a task and the range of acceptable outputs for a task, leaving a smaller area for an AI agent to do its thing in and thus be more effective.