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Re:Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 by perryizgr8 on Monday December 01, 2025 @09:11PM (#46116562)
Alexa has this annoying habit of being non-deterministic.

> Alexa, turn on the bedroom lights.

> OK lights turn on

In the evening:

> Alexa, turn on the bedroom lights.

> I'm sorry, I don't know a device called "bedroom lights".

How is it even possible to build a computer system that behaves like this?

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Re:Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 by cmiles8 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @05:11AM (#46119634)
OMG yes this! It’s infuriating.

Even basic tasks like “play this song” get screwed up and wonder off into the abyss. Absolute pile of garbage from Amazon on this AI stuff.

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Re:Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 by mike_hearn on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @05:15AM (#46119661)
Internal timeouts on backend calls, eventual consistency...
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