I think the point was that novel chatbots will still be created, but they need to be talking to your existing assistant (Siri/Alexa) rather than you going directly to them?
His point seems to be that assistants like Siri and Alexa will be the entrypoint for LLM type interactions, which is sort of non-sensical considering most people are using chatGPT right now. I think this could have been an interesting article about how interacting with chat bots still kind of sucks but instead we got some unsubstantiated view that assistants that a lot of people have already written off are going to take over the space.
Many have written them off because they kinda suck a lot now. But they will be much much better, won't they? 5 years lets say? What kind of LLMs will we have then? If it's reliable, why not just have one interface?
I think that's still not a safe assumption, I don't think it's understood enough to know if the poor performance isn't just a fundamental limitation of some kind. You can already see models taking alternative approaches as they hit diminishing returns on the transformer innovation that triggered the massive improvement. I am just a punter onlooking though, no expert.
That's the same, people go to a place where chat interaction is the primary interface to talk to their preferred chatbot. That can be ChatGPT. But no one goes to allstate.com to talk to their chatbot.
A lot of people have used ChatGPT, but it's far, far from most.
Bold of you to think everybody is using Siri/Alexa/other conversational crapola. So many questions: in which language is this one set right now? Is my accent in that language "native" enough? Is yelling around the house an option at this hour? Do I want the passersby listening in? Do I want my conversations being sent to their tech overlords? So many "no" answers that the average techie wouldn't seemingly understand...