Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec::In an interview with Bloomberg, Dave Limp said that he “absolutely” believes that Amazon will soon start charging a subscription fee for Alexa

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155 points

Alexa is so bad though. Who’s going to pay for that?

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80 points

“By the way, you can now pay for Alexa AI option if you want me to reply in a slightly smarter way, but I will still cut you off with ads and other useless things. To activate AlexaAI say activate”

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52 points

“Welcome to the PiHole, Alexa.”

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5 points

Just made the switch to NextDNS. For $2/month I get a lot of the same features but also on my phone when not on WiFi. Still love my pihole though!

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27 points

“No”

“I heard ‘activate’. Thank you! Your credit card will be charged $129 annually. To cancel, please log on to the website because there’s no way we’re letting you get out of this mess the same way we got you into it.”

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To cancel, please log on to the website because there’s no way we’re letting you get out of this mess the same way we got you into it.

Unless you’re in California

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6 points

*to the same degree of intelligence as you’ve previously experienced. (Ps if you don’t we’re making Alexa have a room temp IQ)

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8 points

Guess we’ll find out when they finally pull the trigger

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6 points

Mine can’t ever seem to tell the difference between on and off if there is any sound in my house

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I use “turn on ___” and “kill ___”. Much more reliable matches.

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5 points

Do you change the names of all your devices to people names? The living room lamp is Steve, the bedroom fan is Maryanne…

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2 points

Good to see people already training ai to kill.

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5 points

Still better than Siri …

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Siri was always shit but somehow managed to devolve even further lately. I never trusted her to do more than than turning lights on or off but now this shit happens:

Me: Siri, turn off the lights in the living room

Siri: OKAY, WHICH ROOM? BATHROOM, BEDROOM, KITCHEN, HALLWAY, LIVING ROOM?

Imagine living in a mansion with this cunt

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I use Google to turn on my TV by saying ‘turn on TV’, easily done. But then when I ask it to adjust volume it asks me which TV… I only have one TV online and it had just turned it on.

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But he acknowledged that Alexa will need to drastically improve before that happens.

I get tired of the outrage-headline game.

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