but I've seen more detailed capability... I can't remember if It was under NDA though. I cant seem to find it with a quick search though

There’s a whole bunch of “crimes” that society just kinda ignored at scale. Eg underage drinking in college. People knowingly and willingly speed when it’s against the law. Imagine if your smart car automatically recorded and stored its speed and gps coordinates at all times? It’d be so easy for the government to automatically subscribe to that data and start sending automated tickets… nevermind all the worse things that can happen.

This data can be manipulated and abused by stalkers and hackers, abusive partners controlling their wives or kids, churches trying to guilt you into behaving differently, etc.

Which is why the very first sentence of my post includes the phrase "self-hosted"

Alexa used to be better, but only yesterday I asked it to flip a coin.

"I've added flip a coin to your basket"

???

I asked again, and she actually flipped a coin.

That's why siri and Google are driving their assistants into the ground with "by the way"

If someone would nail voice assistants that would be a bit selling point for their platform and it's a good way to get people into their paid services too.

Not really sure what you are referring to with driving the assistants in the ground, from what I can tell it's just not very good tech ("one moment", "working on it", "there was an problem answering this query",...) and not related to any monetization strategies.

(I am not affiliated.)