Sci-fi assistants set a weirdly high bar

i keep thinking the old sci-fi version of a computer assistant was way more about tone than capability. it talked like it understood you, even when the actual task was basically impossible.

real AI tools are kind of the opposite: they can do more, but they rarely feel like they know what they’re doing. is the missing piece just better memory and context, or are we always going to be stuck with the uncanny demo phase?