Google lays off employees working on its voice assistant::Up to 20 employees working on Google's Assistant team have been cut.

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[–] 76 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Alexa is the same and used to work fine. My favorite is “Alexa, turn on the fan” turns on the fan in my mother’s room but “Alexa, turn off the fan”correctly turns off the fan in my bedroom. I ended up getting a HomePod and using home assistant to add all my devices to HomeKit. Shit on Siri all you want but at least she can turn the right devices on and off and on first try.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I unplugged mine a few weeks ago. I realized literally the only thing I use it for is occasionally finding my phone.. besides that, it fucks up basically every instruction I give it

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It works reasonably well for timers, alarms and weather.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Every time I hear about some proprietary thing getting effectively bricked by the company that sold them so they don't have to support them forever, I wonder "what did you think was going to happen?"

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