Alexa stupidity

2024-02-15 Thread Richard Turner
Folks often talk about Siri being stupid, well, this morning Alexa showed that it could be equally stupid, if not more so. I use it mostly on our Sonos system. I make tea and coffee every morning for my wife and I. I have two timers created, Carol's timer, and Richard's timer. This morning when

Re: Alexa stupidity

2024-02-15 Thread David Grossoehme
Richard that's what I think when she speaks up out of nowhere, and her name has not been spoken. Dave On 2/15/2024 10:10 AM, Richard Turner wrote: Folks often talk about Siri being stupid, well, this morning Alexa showed that it could be equally stupid, if not more so. I use it mostly on

RE: Alexa stupidity

2024-02-15 Thread Brent Harding
: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2024 9:11 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Alexa stupidity Folks often talk about Siri being stupid, well, this morning Alexa showed that it could be equally stupid, if not more so. I use it mostly on our

Re: Alexa stupidity

2024-02-15 Thread Mary Otten
Yep. I actually think all of these assistance are getting stupider, including Google. All that AI they’re supposedly using certainly hasn’t made its way to my Google assistant, which is now unable to answer really simple questions like for instance when is the first Los Angeles Dodgers spring train

RE: Alexa stupidity

2024-02-17 Thread Richard
<mailto:richard.pe...@earthlink.net> richard.pe...@earthlink.net From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2024 4:10 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Alexa stupidity Yep. I actually think all of these assistance are getting st

Re: Alexa stupidity

2024-02-17 Thread Flor Lynch
Petty richard.pe...@earthlink.net <mailto:richard.pe...@earthlink.net> *From:*viphone@googlegroups.com *On Behalf Of *Mary Otten *Sent:* Thursday, February 15, 2024 4:10 PM *To:* viphone@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Alexa stupidity Yep. I actually think all of these assistance are getti

Re: Alexa stupidity

2024-02-17 Thread Mary Otten
:10 PMTo: viphone@googlegroups.comSubject: Re: Alexa stupidity Yep. I actually think all of these assistance are getting stupider, including Google. All that AI they’re supposedly using certainly hasn’t made its way to my Google assistant, which is now unable to answer really simple questions like

Re: Alexa stupidity

2024-02-17 Thread RichardPetty
, Tune In, and other involved systems. Arg! Richard Pettyrichard.pe...@earthlink.net From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Mary OttenSent: Thursday, February 15, 2024 4:10 PMTo: viphone@googlegroups.comSubject: Re: Alexa stupidity Yep. I actually think all of these assistance are getting

Re: Alexa stupidity

2024-02-17 Thread Tom Lange
involved systems. Arg! Richard Pettyrichard.pe...@earthlink.net From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Mary OttenSent: Thursday, February 15, 2024 4:10 PMTo: viphone@googlegroups.comSubject: Re: Alexa stupidity Yep. I actually think all of these assistance are getting stupider, including

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2024-02-17 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
, February 17, 2024 10:05 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Alexa stupidity This week for whatever reason Alexa ceased to connect to the local public radio stream, even though Alexa has made the connection for years. I typically opened the stream by asking Alexa to play KUHF, whi