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I have no problem with being able to verbally ask a computer to do basic useful things, it's a far more advanced PC-human inferface than the computer mouse...
But beyond that, meh. I get how it can be used by science to solve complex issues or analyze large datasets, and that's cool, but I don't need anything on my PC more calable than an aide that can set a timer for me, or thereabouts.
If it can't already do something with way fewer errors than people, than it shouldn't be doing that yet.
If it can, then we might as well put it to work.
We didn't build stone tools because our hands were good enough, or bronze tools because stone was good enough,...
Oh no, you need much much higher standards than "fewer errors than people"
My robot vacuum is already above that