I feel like this was the promise of voice assistants like Siri many years ago, turns out they currently still have issues turning on / off lights reliably.
I was thinking the other day that Amazon and others are probably going to either use ChatGPT or their own version to replace the core of many of their voice assistants. Siri is useless.
Alexa used to be better, but only yesterday I asked it to flip a coin.
The issue with modern voice "assistants" is that it's impossible to monetize them and still keep them useful. Something like this will probably never get built by a capitalist corporation because there's no way to turn a profit.
That's why siri and Google are driving their assistants into the ground with "by the way"
I don't think this makes sense, it's a feature that makes their platform more valuable even if not directly monetized. There's many features like that.
If someone would nail voice assistants that would be a bit selling point for their platform and it's a good way to get people into their paid services too.
Not really sure what you are referring to with driving the assistants in the ground, from what I can tell it's just not very good tech ("one moment", "working on it", "there was an problem answering this query",...) and not related to any monetization strategies.
Alexa used to be better, but only yesterday I asked it to flip a coin.
"I've added flip a coin to your basket"
???
I asked again, and she actually flipped a coin.