Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise
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Re: Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise
#2I unplugged my Alexa after being woken up at night with Alexa yelling about something or another too many times. It seemed like the perfect noise maker that could also casually perform a limited number of other tasks and parlor tricks when needed but the tech just isnt there.
It has a lot of issues hearing me when I want it to and yet somehow picks up when I'm talking about a friend Alex from a room away. It's not quite as disappointing as the Kindle Fire I bought but at least my girlfriend can use that to watch movies on.
Re: Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise
#3what about it being the trojan horse of AI, to get Amazon's foot in the door for its eventual successor?
Re: Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise
#4what about it being the trojan horse of AI, to get Amazon's foot in the door for its eventual successor?
Like Windows Mobile in the smartphone business?
Re: Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise
#5What did you expect? Its primary purpose is ordering stuff.
Re: Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise
#6I unplugged my Alexa after being woken up at night with Alexa yelling about something or another too many times. It seemed like the perfect noise maker that could also casually perform a limited number of other tasks and parlor tricks when needed but the tech just isnt there. It has a lot of issues hearing me when I want it to and yet somehow picks up when I'm talking about a friend Alex from a room away. It's not qu…
I unplugged my Alexa after being woken up at night with Alexa yelling about something or another too many times.
"Why isn't your desk in front of the telescreen?"
Re: Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise
#7Alexa is a voice interface, and a pretty good one at that. I use it primarily for home automation and it works pretty well for that. There is not much intelligence behind it in that regard, but it's very good at recognizing commands, which is what is needed.
Re: Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise
#8I unplugged my Alexa after being woken up at night with Alexa yelling about something or another too many times. It seemed like the perfect noise maker that could also casually perform a limited number of other tasks and parlor tricks when needed but the tech just isnt there. It has a lot of issues hearing me when I want it to and yet somehow picks up when I'm talking about a friend Alex from a room away. It's not qu…
3:15am: "I can't connect to the internet!"
Arrrggghhh! The problem of course was that the Echo rebooted faster than the wireless router after a power failure.
Re: Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise
#9I unplugged my Alexa after being woken up at night with Alexa yelling about something or another too many times. It seemed like the perfect noise maker that could also casually perform a limited number of other tasks and parlor tricks when needed but the tech just isnt there. It has a lot of issues hearing me when I want it to and yet somehow picks up when I'm talking about a friend Alex from a room away. It's not qu…
I don't own an Alexa but I can't stop myself from asking this, after reading this and the article.
Is there really no setting on this thing to make it shut down from 11PM to 6AM?
Re: Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise
#10I don't have the Amazon stuff, but do mostly control hue with Siri and
> in order to use the Hue bulbs with Alexa, you must relinquish all use of manual light switches.
Isn't fully true. We have smart dimmers that can be placed in better spots since they are battery powered.