Alexa Plus is better at running my home, but it’s not ready to run my life
I’ve spent a year living with Alexa Plus, and it both delights and frustrates me, which is the smart home in a nutshell. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Of all the things Alexa Plus can do, I never expected it to make me cry. Since my son left for college, the Echo Show in my office has been making then-and-now photo montages: the toddler with his first tennis racket next to the captain of his varsity team; me hugging him as a tween beside me hugging him as a youn
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An AI-powered smart home assistant was tested over a year to evaluate its capabilities in controlling home devices and serving as a personal assistant. The assistant excels at smart home control, routines, and kitchen tasks through conversational voice commands, but struggles with personal assistant functions like remembering details about the user's family. The improvement matters because voice assistants have historically required stilted, precise commands, while this version understands more natural language requests and executes them faster and more reliably than its predecessor.
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Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break
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