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In other words, there should be a list of predefined queries, or possibly subqueries, that the user can request. This is basically how products used to work before AI. The difference is now you can request which query you want verbally.

edit: I'm serious. I'm just answering the question, not making a value judgement.

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I assume you're being tongue in check but I've watched a lot of people use software and they really just don't know anything about it. Being able to verbally request something is something they can learn to do while googling how do I normalize the scores in my rubric to add up to 100 is something they couldn't.

Verbal queries is the solution for the world we have even if it's not optimal.

Your last sentence sums it up. This is what users want.

The main killer app, I think, boils down really expensive speech-to-text (and vice versa) with a reasonable number of seemingly authoritative querying details in fairly plain language. It's a new, 'better' search engine, just with different pitfalls people need to get up to speed on. And that may be enough, because employing humans to fill the same role as effectively is more expensive still.

So simple classification problem. Big deal.

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