Similarly the only use Siri gets on the kitchen HomePod is for hands-free timers while cooking.
In my eyes the primary thing that's standing in the way of voice assistants being useful isn't even as high of a bar as general AI, but just the ability to parse a command into multiple, potentially chained commands. Even with the inability to figure out things like context that would boost usability a lot — for example, it'd allow commands like, "set timers for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and an hour" instead of having to make each request separately.
In my eyes the primary thing that's standing in the way of voice assistants being useful isn't even as high of a bar as general AI, but just the ability to parse a command into multiple, potentially chained commands. Even with the inability to figure out things like context that would boost usability a lot — for example, it'd allow commands like, "set timers for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and an hour" instead of having to make each request separately.