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Their deluded vision is that they think the traditional user interface is going away. Rather than interact with a machine, you'll just be walking around, sipping coffee, having thoughtful conversations with a bot laughing along with your jokes as it writes your letter and does your taxes.
And it can even defuse the bomb at site B while you're making dinner.
Wake me when it can plant a bomb at site B while I'm making dinner
Wake me when it can make dinner while I defend the bomb site
Wake me when
The dream of lonely boring tech douches
So, basically the computers from Star Trek: TNG. I'd go for that, but unfortunately, what we'll get instead is enshitified AI slop which exists to suck a subscription fee out of you every month while pushing ads.
I dunno, I remember it more like, "hey computer, make a LARP/natural wonder/cozy space/sing & dance number for my real humanoid (and android) friends and I to enjoy together". When computer manifestations got regarded as worthy of personhood, it was either some exceptional case, or the story was about the character's delusion.