All over the world, millions of people have been doing something in private that’s now spilling into public spaces, on our sidewalks and in our open-plan offices alike. They’re…talking to their gadgets. And not just a little—constantly. These aren’t the old voice assistants we’ve come to resent. Billions of devices are equipped with microphones and internet connections, and more of them are getting generative artificial intelligence, making them radically better at both hearing and understanding us. A revamped Siri, powered by Google, is coming to the iPhone. Hundreds of millions of Alexa-capable devices from Amazon already support the generative-AI Alexa+.…

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