The gap between Siri and Star Trek voice assistants

The future of search is conversational assistance. Instead of typing in keywords to get back a set of results, users will converse with software agents using natural language to specify increasingly complex tasks. Now, truth be told, this has been "the future" for over 50 years, from the Star Trek computer to Iron Man's Jarvis. This Apple concept video depicts a helpful conversational assistant you can use for any number of tasks, complete with bow tie. Everyone knows the technology behind conversational assistance is hard.