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

We need to move AI from the cloud to our own hardware running in our homes. Free, open source, privacy focused hardware. It'll eventually be very affordable.

AI is being touted as the solution to everything these days. It's really not, and we are going to find that out the hard way.

Alexa is more like a telemarketer disguised as an assistant. Every interaction is followed by a “by the way . Its a shit experience so I stopped using mine.

So they expect that people pay for being spied upon and seriously data mined?

So they get massive amounts of free data for Machine Learning, but want to charge users for supplying it?

Alexa has a feature where you tell it you're leaving the house and it will listen for smoke detectors or breaking glass, alerting you through your phone if it detects something. Amazon is putting that behind a paywall next year.

Just FYI, Alexa records everything you speak into it, you can listen to it here:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GHXNJNLTRWCTBBGW

I already don't use it, you don't have to sell me on it.

...charge me to use Alexa?

I already avoid it like the plague.

I have doubts alexa is using AI, seen how dumb it is, but well

Good luck, I guess? Got the first Google home, at first it was great, I was asking it tons of questions. Then the questions stopped, used it for turning on the lights and other automations. Then I installed Home Assistant and the only command Google Home got was to set a timer to know when to pull things out of the oven. Eventually I stopped doing that.

At the moment all Google/Nest Homes have their mic cut off, I only use them to stream music in my house from my NAS via Plex. So yeah..

How to make me go back to buying shit in person, by Amazon.com

Something tells me that they'll still listen to you for free.

Their using the public to train AI. Then charging the public for the AI it trained.

Ok. I'll be the weirdo. If it's actually useful, I would pay for it.

Not if it's just the parlor trick that it currently is.

I use Alexa as a way to use an old speaker system. I wouldn't pay to use any "smart" speaker systems. They are pretty dumb and I've already paid once

They thought people would be like "Alexa, but me a ton of shit on Amazon" but people just use it for timers and the weather

Oh no!

I'll just have to install a weather app and use the timer on my stove instead of using Alexa.

We upgraded our technologies so much that it'a becoming unsustainable for us, so we are increasing prices.

They're never going to be satisfied with the amount of money that have.

All I want alexa to do is turn my lights on and off, set timers, and show me my own pictures. And it can BARELY do that without fucking it up. Everyone I know wants the same, they expect nothing more from it. "AI" features of Alexa aren't t needed or wanted by anyone I've talked to about it.

My Home Assistant Voice is getting really close to displacing Alexa.

Has Amazon considered making a stationary AI?