I’m sorry, people still have or use these things?
Who is this stupid or lazy?
It won’t be long until the LLMs are trained with for ad-RAG
While each conversation happens a second model will scan it, send the contents to a vector search, return as embedding and a score, then give those outputs silently to the conversing model.
You do need to train/fine tune the model to not mention that it received the ad and subtly push it.
Actually, now that I think about it, you don’t even need to tell the model about the ad, you just weight some of the input tokens with the ad embedding and it naturally biases towards talking about that brand.
Easy fix:
Follow-up fix: get home assistant and recreate this yourself with a $15 device
I started making my own several years ago but got sidelined by health issues and haven’t gone back to it. :(
My end goal is I have a lot of comic books. I want a voice assistant that can query a database and then turn on smart lights to show box locations.
I got the database done, I got the queries working, then had a heart attack and never got the voice input or smart light output working. :(
Damn. I hope you’re feeling better, my friend.
Working on it!
If you can find a hass replacement for the Echo Flex, I will name my firstborn after you.
How far away is the Home Assistant Voice Preview from what you’re looking for?
It doesn’t plug directly into the wall but instead uses a USB C cable (that you provide). Other than this, mine can answer questions, search the internet, turn things on and off, play music via Spotify, Jellyfin, etc. Tell me about the state of stuff in Home Assistant (temps in rooms, how the solar is doing, what’s on my shopping list and can add things, etc).
It requires you already have Home Assistant set up but it is a pretty good experience so long as you’re willing to do some amount of tinkering to make it your own.
Like other comments say it’s not general public ready but it’s pretty close and costs $69.
It doesn’t plug directly into the wall
That’s a huge deal: it stays out of the way and it’s a complete unit.
Can I replace AppleHome with this stuff?
It’s fun and I recommend it, but I’m hesitant to say you can ‘replace’ your existing systems with it. You’ll probably mostly be able do what you want to do, but we’re still in the enthusiast stage and there’s going to be annoyances and frustrations. Home assistant is also one of the easier things to setup as far as self hosting goes, but you’re going to pick up some skills on the path to getting it working.
Trust me, there’s annoyances and frustrations aplenty with Apple
I’m pretty sure Amazon got this idea from Black Mirror’s latest season
Alexa already periodically makes “suggestions” that are annoying to disable if you misspeak.
Counting down until it starts demanding credit cards in order to function. Maybe as a form of “identity check”, as that’s been a popular excuse to collect payment information.
To disable suggestions:
“Alexa, stop By The Way”
Pretty much why we unplugged all of ours. I just need to set a timer, don’t tell me extra shit!
*Amazon testing public backlash before shoving ads into your conversations with Alexa+
FTFY
“brought to you by Carls Jr.”
Fuck you! I’m eating!!
Make the bad even worse. Is there a word for this?
Enshitification
Duh. This is the AI wet dream. Ads won’t have discrete patterns that can be filtered. The LLM will deliver content specific garbage as if it were a genuine answer to a query. It will just bias towards ads and deliver the ad Ina different personalized manner each time. For as much as everyone likes to bitch about AI. This may be the golden age. It probably just gets worse from here.
Musk on the other hand already experiments on adding ideology and use such bots (makes as regular users) on social media.
You’re still using Alexa? Unplugged our listening er pod device about a week after we got it.
Just the messenger, dude.
Same, I got Alexa (the first one with a good speaker) when attended a sales event of another company. I set it up, but after seeing its network activity even when no one was home I shut it down and didn’t use it again.
I don’t understand why people don’t feel weirded out by having an always on listening device.
Yup, scares the heck out of me. Guess other don’t agree. I am getting downvoted.
Likely b/c your comment reads like you are stating OP is using it when you probably meant a more general public “you”? That’d be my guess. I think most, if not all, here would agree to not ever use alexa, that bitch.
That’s a them problem. I did not say it was OP. Ass/u/me.
Based on the your still “insert whatever here”.
I bought an Alexa echo long before I actually cared about privacy and I regret it a lot. It’s been a pricey paper weight since then. I wish I could flash some kind of OS and use it as a sound bar or something. I can’t even use the Bluetooth without signing in with amazon account, which requires a lot of data including phone number.
Do you have a shotgun? Makes a respectable flying target.
Once….which is probably the point.
They’re already making suggestions. Got one this morning telling me I can ask it for updates on Amazon packages.
Speaking of which, anyone have any suggestions for better smart speakers?
I’m not really a smart speaker kind of guy but HomePods are nice, sound quality is pretty good
Mine isn’t. Do you use the full size, or the mini?
I bought a full size a few years ago but returned it cause I didn’t think it was worth the price. I got a mini as a gift last year and it works great. Even has built in temperature and humidity sensors
Anyone see the newest Black Mirror season?
That one was hard to watch. It just kept getting worse and worse.
I didn’t realize they were still producing episodes. Are they as good as S1-3?
Some of them are, but a few others feel like rehashing old themes without adding much. Still mostly worth watching imo
Fuck I was just thinking about “common people” when I saw this. Definitely the best episode of that season
I can’t even stand when my Google assistant says more than three words to respond 😂 if I start hearing ads out of that thing I will get rid of it faster than anything I’ve ever done
They already do…
