Can Intelligent Personal Assistants and Knowledge Navigators like Apple's "Siri", replace secretaries and personal assistants one day?

Yes, they can. Since Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is going to the advance level.

Absolutely they can. I am using this as my own PA on daily-basis.

Yes it is happening, The world we are living now is an era of AI. This is a stage of collecting user data. If you looks at the current trending applications, Every application is collecting user data as much as they can. These data will help in future to predict, assist a user.

 

eg: Google fit is an application which track your health information. Future the google now is going to tell you how healthy you are  and you was...!

 

Current available personal assistant application will allow us to set reminders, alarm , shows traffic to work, interested stories, etc..

 

Applications like Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri, Google Now is collecting your personal data in different ways.

As per my view, I am sure that, a day will come when all these application is going to assist you with history collected in different stages of your life...

I highly doubt it because as a woman you will want to talk about what happened from last night's serial and sometimes there will be some problems at home with your husband or mother-in-law whereby you will need a specialized answer to your situation.

It really depends. AI lack intentionality, while they can definitely perform some tasks they don't have emotional intelligence. Studies have shown that while IQ does predict a bit of success, EQ is required for a successful and driven employee. AI is still in its prime though, there are no limits to which it can evolve, but for now it is tough for AI to replace secretaries and personal assistants.

Yes, But not so soon it will take some time. For now I use Siri for small tasks like setting alarm, setting reminders.. etc..

As of now digital personal assistant like siri and Google are smart enough to replace personal assistant for most of the people but these are not smart enough to replace profession secretaries as circumstances may arise that digital personal assistant might not be able to handle.

Unlikely, there's too many variables and logical inconsistency in human for a machine to operate. It would difficult for PA to operate in forms of cultural, individual and social context but it can find you a nearby hotel though.

In a way, yes. but NOT exactly. you can say, artificial intelligence will be an incredible add-on to Human part of it. i believe in NOT underestimating Human aspect of making things happen

Yes, they can as we are moving towards technology world were we need accuracy and less TAT, however, we human likes to cater their queries by human voice instead of IVR by understanding their feelings and working on it to core for quick resolution.

This quite a relative question that would have its answer determined by the context in which it is being asked. The technology of today can overtake the daily mundane and ordinary tasks that P.A.s' and secretaries perform. On the otherhand, when it comes to intellectual tasks and reasoning functions , human intervention and monitoring would be imminent and cannot be solely perfomed by a program.