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

    • @[email protected]
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      181 year ago

      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.

      • _haha_oh_wow_
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        51 year ago

        The enshittification will continue until quarterly profits improve…

        …then they will continue to continue.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      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

        • @TryingToEscapeTarkov
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          81 year ago

          Mine is a glorified kitchen timer that occasionally plays Spotify while I do dishes.

        • @slumberlust
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          61 year ago

          Except that it ALWAYS continues to listen after the command and you have to yell at it to fuck off.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Oh really? I can no longer get it to set a recurring alarm every monday through thursday. It’s just not understanding any of the commands there that it did before.

    • @h0rnman
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      51 year ago

      I’ve never before been so glad to read about someone else’s misfortune. Mine have been doing this for MONTHS and I thought it was just me imagining things

    • @zwaetschgeraeuber
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      51 year ago

      same. throwing out my speakers as they understand less each day as it feels. now its only a clap light switch and everything else, i at least have to ask 2 times

    • @Happenchance
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      41 year ago

      Unplugged mine last week. Fuck em.

      • @Spellinbee
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        31 year ago

        Honestly, I pretty much only use mine for relatively cheap home speaker groups.

    • @ikidd
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      11 year 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?”