Impressive demo, but yet i can&#x27;t help thinking that the &quot;big&quot; question still remain largely unsolved for those services.<p>Two points :<p>1&#x2F; viv keeps mentioning a &quot;breakthrough&quot; in computer science because they managed to create a program that will scan a network of services and fill the parameters from the query. Now, those guys aren&#x27;t jokers, so i presume there is definitely something fantastic behind, yet i can&#x27;t help thinking that once you&#x27;ve &quot;understood&quot; the intent, it sounds quite close to a sql &#x2F; graphql query planner.<p>2&#x2F; Which leads to the big question : guessing the intent. Every time i hear people mention &quot;intelligence&quot; or &quot;understanding&quot;,  i show them this : &quot;hey siri, please do NOT set a timer for 4 minutes, i beg you&quot;. The fact is, it&#x27;s just a trick. It recognize words, but it doesn&#x27;t understand anything, it doesn&#x27;t have concepts, knowledge or any experience. It&#x27;s a dumb program that never had any life or sense to understand anything.<p>If i say &quot;find me a good ticket for Chicago tonight&quot;. How will it know that i&#x27;m talking about the rock band that&#x27;s playing tonight in Paris, France, since there&#x27;s absolutely not a chance that a human being asks for a plane ticket for such a big trip just a few hours in advance ?<p>This is, to me, <i>the</i> big and interesting question that online assistants makers needs to solve. Now of course, viv is aiming for a product release this year, so they&#x27;re building an intermediate solution, where developers will manually associate keywords to services, in an &quot;easy&quot; way. And it will sort of work.<p>Yet i&#x27;m still waiting for the real &quot;big&quot; advance.