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Alexa Plus is better at running my home, but it’s not ready to run my life
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Amazon’s AI-powered Alexa can’t always remember who I am or where my daughter goes to school — but it can now reliably turn on my lights and sometimes make me a coffee.
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Of all the things Alexa Plus can do, I never expected it to make me cry. Since my son left for college, the Echo Show in my office has been making then-and-now photo montages: the toddler with his first tennis racket next to the captain of his varsity team; me hugging him as a tween beside me hugging him as a young man. I’ve teared up more than once. But then comes the ad, a full-screen photo of a hideous brown leather recliner. I go from nostalgic joy to irritation in an instant.
That pretty much sums up my year with Alexa Plus. One minute it will do something seriously impressive; the next, it acts like it doesn’t know who I am.