[spookthesunset]

I would hope that it would at last get you out of the hell that is “what the heck did I name that stupid light?”. Device naming is, in my opinion, the worst part of any of the voice based home assistant things.

Is it “porch led”, “porch light” or “outdoor light”? Or is “outdoor light” actually the one in the front yard? What is the one by my kids nightstand? And what routine name do I use to set the mood for watching a movie?

I would hope a properly trained llm with an awareness of my devices and their locations would allow for more verbal ambiguity when controlling things.

[dbish]

Maybe, seems like overkill to solve a relatively straight forward problemt that is about resolution to real entities with a generative model that has no entity grounding (and may introduce other problems). It's really just not solved because Alexa/Siri leadership doesn't actually care enough about that use case to solve it. Device entity resolution and disambiguation does not require an LLM to solve for a limited number of devices, it just requires people to prioritze that over other things, and smart home device owners are the kind of early adopter that would not be the current market focus for growth (my guess, haven't worked on Alexa in many years).

I know a half dozen different ways to improve that today without LLMs.