All That New Google Hardware? It's a Trojan Horse for AI – WIRED

Shifting users toward intent-driven interactions is key to making AI work. Take this typical Spotify interaction: Open your phone, open Spotify, click to search, type what you want to hear. If you're just listening on your phone, you're done. Anything else takes a bit more work. "If I want to stream music to speakers in my living room, that's multiple steps I have to take, and I have to work through discovering the trigger points on the app," Mann says.