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Re:American drivers even more distracted by phones. Pedestri... by P_I_Staker on Friday February 23, 2024 @07:58AM (#39479992)
And for some reason voice commands for podcasts have never been figured out.

"Play a different episode"

"Sorry, I have no idea how to do that"

Them: Be scared. AI is really smart and is going to take your job.

In fairness, I think there's reasons they're intentionally making it different to select what you want to play... but WTF is up with that, too.

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Re:American drivers even more distracted by phones. Pedestri... by bouncing on Friday February 23, 2024 @08:01AM (#39480024)
My favorite is, some time around last summer, whenever I told Google to play the latest episode of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, it invariably plays some random unrelated (not even a similar name) music on Spotify.
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Re:American drivers even more distracted by phones. Pedestri... by tzs on Friday February 23, 2024 @07:52PM (#39488077)
I have no idea if this would work with Google, but I've noticed with Alexa it seems less likely to play a song when I ask for a non-song if I tell it to "listen" to the non-song rather than to "play" the non-song.
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