Until recently, it was really, really hard for systems to determine user intent from natural language or other cues. Hand-coded rules or simple keyword matching made early interpretation systems brittle. Even when systems understood the words you said, they might not know what to do with them if it wasn’t part of the script. Saying “switch on the lights” instead of “turn on the lights” could mean you stayed in the dark. Don’t know the precise incantation? Too bad. Large language m...
