Icehawk78 comments on Kurzweil's predictions: good accuracy, poor self-calibration - Less Wrong
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I suggest that you are underestimating their ubiquity by focusing on Siri. Almost every large corporation has a phone tree where at least the initial stages are served by an AI using voice recognition, with "enter that umber on the keypad" as backup. Notice the reference to "routine business transactions".
These don't use any form of natural language recognition - they work by having very rigidly defined responses that they can interpret (ie "say 'one' for hard to recognize or easily obfuscated department").