[ravenstine]

People lose interest in Alexa for the same reason that most people don't spend their entire lives playing the same video game campaigns over and over again; the AI is compelling until you finish the game a few times, and then you figure out all their predictable patterns and discover all their limits. Once you figure out that Alexa is a dumb voice interface around a command line (without all the power of an actual command line), maybe you'll use it to play music or start a timer but the fantasies that it will be something you actively talk to in order to do everything in your home goes out the window. This is especially true after all the times it fails to understand what you say, fails to connect, or has issues because of AWS outages.

[tinus_hn]

It’s really the same with Siri, it’s all nicely made but in a pretty large of instances it fails and there is no way to correct it.

If you for instance ask for directions to a street and it sounds like a name, as streets sometimes do, Siri will often insist on treating it as the name of a person and fail. And there really is no way to correct her. And it just fails too often to be convenient.