Comment by sothatsit

> When you can give it all the generic abstractions for everything we use, it can become a better assistant than what we have now or possibly even more than that.

The range of possibilities also comes with a terrifying range of things that could go wrong...

Reliability engineering, quality assurance, permissions management, security, and privacy concerns are going to be very important in the near future.

People criticize Apple for being slow to release a better voice assistant than Siri that can do more, but I wonder how much of their trepidation comes from these concerns. Maybe they're waiting for someone else to jump on the grenade first.