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Alexa has been one-upped. She's little more than a voice-operated dumb terminal now. ChatGPT is seen as the "Computer" from Star Trek. Not surprised by the job

Alexa has been one-upped. She's little more than a voice-operated dumb terminal now. ChatGPT is seen as the "Computer" from Star Trek. Not surprised by the job cuts. Sorry to hear about it. I am surprised by Alexa's lack of evolution over the years. Maybe I'm naive as to the complexities of AI and speech-to-intent, but I remember standing in my kitchen asking Alexa if she knew about ChatGPT. She recommended the ChatGPT Skill which worked, but ultimately I was left disappointed once I exited the skill, and returned back to _plain old_ Alexa. I wonder when ChatGPT will be able to turn on my lights and set a reminder to take the bread out of the oven? I should go look into that...

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vineyardmike 3y ago
> I wonder when ChatGPT will be able to turn on my lights and set a reminder to take the bread out of the oven? I should go look into that... This is the part you’re underestimating. The language->intent stuff is not solved but it’s long been “good enough” for basic tasks. The long-tail of integrating with other services is hard and not improved by better AI (unless you have some clever new ideas). Maintaining the actual logic that lets Alexa talk to hundreds of APIs is very human-intense even if it’s not hard.