For Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, it’s now or never

AI voice assistants never lived up to their potential, and ChatGPT made them look silly. But upcoming developer conferences could change that.

Alexa often asks me, unprompted, if I’d like it to give me a heads-up when snow is forecasted. It’s an unexpectedly proactive gesture. Except here in the San Francisco Bay Area, snow is never in the offing—and Amazon doesn’t seem to have programmed its voice assistant to understand the command “Alexa, stop asking me that pointless question over and over.”