alt Hacker NewsAlexa consistently fails with the simplest of questions.
Only thing it can do is set a timer, turn off a light and play music.
It is still nice, but it’s so frustrating when a question pops into my mind, and I accidentally ask Alexa just to get reminded yet again how useless it is for everything but the most basic tasks.
And no, I won’t pay 240 dollars a year so that I can get a proper response to my random questions that I realistically have only about once a week.
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and despite all this, I would pay 240$ a year so that Siri can reliably do what Alexa does today
oh the irony
Alexa has pretty much zero value for me.
Being able to just order something with zero shipping has a ton of value. I could drive down the street but it would still be an hour at the end of the day.
Video streaming has some value but there are a lot of options.
Just pay 0 USD and use Grok app for free?
By far the best thing currently available.
> Only thing it can do is set a timer, turn off a light
And it can't even do that without an Internet connection. As someone who experiences annoyingly frequent outages, it never ceases to boggle my mind that I have a $200 computer, with an 8" monitor and everything, that can't even understand "set a timer for 10 minutes" on its own.