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Amazon's Alexa Plus improves smart home control but struggles as a personal assistant

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Amazon's Alexa Plus has shown significant improvements in smart home control over the past year, handling complex commands and routines more reliably and quickly. The AI-powered assistant now understands more natural language, making interactions smoother for tasks like controlling lights or setting timers. However, its capabilities as a personal assistant are still underdeveloped, with instances of forgetting user information and displaying intrusive advertisements on Echo Show devices. AI

IMPACT Enhances smart home functionality with improved natural language understanding and routine execution, but still lags in personal assistant capabilities.

RANK_REASON Review of an existing AI-powered product, focusing on its performance and limitations after a year of use, rather than a new release or significant industry shift.

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Amazon's Alexa Plus improves smart home control but struggles as a personal assistant

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. The Verge — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jennifer Pattison Tuohy ·

    Alexa Plus is better at running my home, but it&#8217;s not ready to run my life

    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 tw…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Alexa Plus is better at running my home, but it's not ready to run my life https://www.theverge.com/tech/1007565/amazon-alexa-plus-review-one-year-echo-show-dot

    Alexa Plus is better at running my home, but it's not ready to run my life https://www.theverge.com/tech/1007565/amazon-alexa-plus-review-one-year-echo-show-dot-max # Tech # SmartHome # AI

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