(note that, in a sense, a book has very limited knowledge and 0 interpretation skills, but its behaviour is passive).
I don't mind them being called "Voice Assistants" though, but don't tell me it's AI or ML, since it doesn't truly learn, it calibrates your voice if anything. It doesn't do a darn thing on it's own, someone has to tell it to do that thing, like in some cases the very human communicating. When they are fully autonomous... THEN I'll be happy, and creeped out at the same time.
The real change with AI will be if the masses are allowed to build their own relatively easily enough. When even kids are allowed to be creative with different AI's it will get interesting enough.
Sadly some megacorp will buy it out and lock it up is more likely to happen.
Give it time and it'll be like in the movies. I'm a tinfoil hat, vpns, adblockers, but that youtube made me want one, it's funny :)
I wish somebody had told me that about books when I was a kid.
The term AI is a minefield to talk about. But machine learning is well defined and it’s definable you machine learning even though Alexa “doesn’t learn”. Alexa uses applied models which where built using machine learning techniques. Like it or not that’s just the facts.