what's frustrating about it to me is that you don't even really need LLMs to achieve that, and most certainly you don't need anything more advanced than what we have right now, the missing part is actually putting some effort into programming the thing and not just buying progressively larger computers in the hope that at some point it'll magically become sapient and do all the work for them.

like, for fuck's sake, weren't people using voice assistants on their phone for like 10 years before the AI hype?