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perryizgr8 | 3 months ago

Alexa has this annoying habit of being non-deterministic.

> Alexa, turn on the bedroom lights.

> OK lights turn on

In the evening:

> Alexa, turn on the bedroom lights.

> I'm sorry, I don't know a device called "bedroom lights".

How is it even possible to build a computer system that behaves like this?

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mike_hearn|3 months ago

Internal timeouts on backend calls, eventual consistency...

cmiles8|3 months ago

OMG yes this! It’s infuriating.

Even basic tasks like “play this song” get screwed up and wonder off into the abyss. Absolute pile of garbage from Amazon on this AI stuff.