Nowadays we just get blog posts about results that were supposedly achieved, an accompanying paper that can’t be reproduced (because of Google’s magical “private datasets”), and some screencaps of a cool application of the tech that is virtually guaranteed to never make it to product.
Remember the Google assistant demo, where it booked a table at a restaurant?
That never materialized. Google assistant is just eating crayons today.
But to your point its not as impressive as it was sold: glorified reverse phone tree. But it is what it was sold as, and it is available.