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user-inactivated  ·  1603 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's been five years. Why does Alexa still suck?

... because chatbots are cute toys that become frustrating when you try to use them in real applications, and always will be?





kleinbl00  ·  1603 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My car has an Alpine car stereo with Android Auto. Its Bluetooth name is "hot lip fungus."

My previous phone believed it was in Australia because I find the Australian google voice to be less dourly judgmental of my failures. Hot Lip Fungus reads my texts to me and then asks "do you want to reply?" and then gets lost between T-Mobile and the cloud and its utter inability to do anything on the device. Last time it repeated the text and then said "do you want to reply?" and when I shouted YES!!!!!! at my dashboard like a crazy person, as you must do when interacting with Hot Lip Fungus, it said "...oh" and went back to playing Test Department.

Frustrating, yes. But at this point, bordering on dadaist.