Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price

@AlanDoe

Am I the only one who couldn’t care less about all this AI crap? I really wish it wasn’t forced into everything these days… what next, an AI toilet brush?

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I don’t mind it when it is actually AI. Right now most “AI” things are actually just regular tech things.

One of the worst is toothbrushes with AI to determine where you are brushing - it’s not AI doing this, it’s sensors in the brush and Bluetooth.

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I’ve invented an AI number machine. You put numbers in to it, and you tell it what you want to do to those numbers, and it gives you a number that results.

I’m ready for my VC funding now.

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No, no you are not :slightly_smiling_face:

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I’ve just ordered a travel book from Amazon. Judging by the “Products related to your shipment” list they don’t appear to have mastered algorithms yet.

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Coming to loos in Japan soonish I expect. OH was in Tokyo recently and seriously confused as to how to work the loo… How to Use a Japanese Toilet - An easy infographic guide

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The thing that frustrates me most is when people are using general purpose AI, then trying to sell it as a solution to every problem by slapping some instructions on top of it to disguise it as something it isn’t.

A general purpose AI with constraints, and hand-offs to special purpose AI, and traditional scripted chat models would be far more representative of what people should be expecting but I don’t see it happening when “Make all the money” is the priority over “make a good product”.

My preference would still be to make non-AI tooling better, as we’re a way yet from these tools being fit for purpose beyond minor streamlining of a few tedious processes.