assistants

The thinking is that lawyers handle legal advice (and practice law), while legal assistants handle legal administrative work (and don't give legal advice or practice law).

The professions you should be comparing programming to in this case are not admin assistants or spreadsheet users.

Addressing an AI as a person makes perfect sense, but Cortana and Sira, the vocal assistants, are not AI.

This is no problem for a trained mathematician, but becomes a nuisance when working with proof assistants.

There are also dozens and dozens of TAs and Lab assistants which are actually useful, unlike some other courses.

You also have dentists/dental assistants, which in my anecdotal experience is pretty heavily a male/female divide.

They match house cleaners, handymen, grocery shoppers, cooks and assistants with professionals starved for time.

General users want the convenience of services like digital assistants - and while some of it can be done with local processing, some cannot.

AI assistants like Siri are going to become more prevalent and people will more often go to them for answers instead of a search box.

Because I talked about digital assistants and Google Now, which is basically sending all your information to Google all the time.

You could have a personal digital assistant which interacts with other digital assistants to manage your finances and investments, and everything can be enforced by software.

'The goverment' is really just a couple of dozen people (with perhaps a couple of dozen assistants each).

Shakier are his claims regarding displays embedded into eyewear, "personal beams" of audio, and intelligent virtual assistants.

I will comment, that it seems easier for women to move "up" than for men to move "down." It seems like there is more friction against male nurses/dental assistants than there is against women doctors/dentists.

Not sure what the fuss is about, the same old rule applies: if you want your data to be private, don't use any form of cloud services - server based voice/video chat, cloud storage services (google drive, skydrive, icloud), digital assistants (siri, cortana, google now), any contextual based delivered services which "learns" anything about you to provide you with any form of automated and/or dynamic experience.