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My biggest frustration here is that it can't understand simple responses to questions it asked me. I'll ask Alexa to turn off the lights in a certain room, some
by sethhochberg 3y ago
My biggest frustration here is that it can't understand simple responses to questions it asked me. I'll ask Alexa to turn off the lights in a certain room, sometimes she'll respond "a few things share that name, which one did you mean" and I cannot say "both" or even "all of them". The command equivilent of none-of-the-above or all-of-the-above feels table stakes for an assistant which can ask you for specific selections if it is confused about which you meant.
You can ask to "turn off all of the lights" - but "all of the lights" or "all of them" isn't a valid response once you're into the question-and-answer phase, at least not reliably for me.
- 8note 3y ago"all of them" Works for me in response
- sethhochberg 3y agoI figured as soon as I shared my own anecdote a bunch of others contradicting would follow. This perhaps makes it even more frustrating - I promise I enunciate well and don't verbally abuse the voice assistant!
- WalterBright 3y agoIn the 1970s I tried to create an Advent-like game (Advent was the predecessor of Zork). The user interface was plain English text commands. I rapidly discovered there were so many common ways to express the same thing in English, that trying to enumerate them was impossible. At least impossible on a PDP-10.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoOh, come on. There's aren't that many common way to express basic things in English like telling it to turn of all the two lights on your house when it asks you "which one?". "All of them" and "both" should be enough to cover most users and not put big pressure on Amazons datacenters and yet Alexa can't even get that right.