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Daisy Daisy, give me your answer do...

 
It takes me two attempts to get Alexa to respond sometimes. :(
 
I use Alexa as my alarm, and it quite often doesn't go off, which is a bit inconvenient. Apparently, Amazon are linking Alexa with Claude AI, but it is going to be a subscription model.
 
Get used to those subscription models. Now that the cat is out of the bag that such models actually work and can make money, you can bet your bottom dollar that Amazon will be digging deep into your pockets.
 
When I test any speech transcription services I usually say:- Mary had a little lamb it's fleece was white as snow.. and everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go....
 
Our Access User Group meeting last night had a rather lively after-hours discussion of AI and the future of our profession (i.e. developers who code for a living). It won't make it into the video because we had stopped recording at that point.

Suffice it say there is a divergence of opinion regarding the usefulness and applicability of AI.
 
Suffice it say there is a divergence of opinion regarding the usefulness and applicability of AI.

Just to add a another voice to the clamor, I think that the current generation of AI - that merely is a statistical analysis of various inputs - is going to be a passing fad.

Natural intelligence is the small child pushed into playing soccer. S/he then, when on the field, chases the ball when the coach yells to do so, but sometimes chases the butterfly because there is more wonder it in than in a soccer ball.
 
I have not been offered anything by them?, other than the weather for the week, and that is after I have asked for tonmorrow's weather.
Also I found out, it does not like me swearing at them, when they get it wrong or go deaf. :)
Google minis do not seem to care.
 
They still have a way to go.
I just asked my living room alexa 'when is the next FORMULA 1 grand prix'
She came back with 'the next formula 1 grand pricks is...' :-)
I live in a place called Gorseinon, (gors I non) and one of them always says it with some sort of accent. Gorseinon is in Swansea and all the others say that when I ask about the weather. :)
One good thing about the alexa is that they talk to each other, so I might ask one to stop a reminder/alarm and they will respond, 'There are no whatever on this device, but there is a whatever on the named device. That is clever. Google minis do not do that.
 

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