Re: Alexa stupidity

[RichardPetty]

Good to know. Still not working from here. Thanks. Richard Petty Dictated to and sent from my iPhone Please excuse dictation errors On Feb 17, 2024, at 1:44 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:  I have never listened to that station before, but I just asked my Amazon device to play KUHF and it did. And it’s in Houston. Public radio. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Feb 17, 2024, at 10:04 AM, Richard <richard.pe...@earthlink.net> wrote:  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, which are the station’s call letters. That’s no longer possible. Alexa repeats incorrect call letters and states the connection is not available. More happily, I can ask Alexa  to play “Houston Public Media” and the device will play the stream. I cannot imagine where and why the error now occurs in the Alexa, Tune In, and other involved systems. Arg!   Richard Petty richard.pe...@earthlink.net           From: viphone@googlegroups.com <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 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 training game of 2024? You’d think it would know that with all of its massive AI capability or just look at a database. But no. And it’s not alone. Alexa didn’t know it either. Siri did. Surprise! Mary   Sent from my iPhone On Feb 15, 2024, at 7:11 AM, Richard Turner <richardr_tur...@comcast.net> 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 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 I said “Alexa start Carol’s timer” it responded with “getting family Christmas Carol’s from SamSung … I’m having trouble communicating with Samsung…”  (Samsung is our TV. I tried again, and it said, “I’m having trouble, kitchen seems to be off line, check the connection and try again.”  Well, it couldn’t tell me that if it was offline. The third an final time it said;, “The history of salt …” at which point I said Alexa stop!. I then set the tea timer on our microwave and made my coffee and set my timer on my Apple watch.   My speech is not unclear.  I don’t’ know what Alexa was taking, but it sure scrambled its brains this morning.   Richard, USA “Grandma always told us, “Be careful when you pray for patience. 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