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Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Microsoft seems to be attempting this with the new Copilot in Windows. You can ask it to open applications, etc., and also chat with it. But it is still pretty clunky when it comes to the assistant part (e.g. I asked it to open my power settings and after a bit of to and fro it managed to open the Settings app, after which I had to find the power settings for myself). And they're planning to charge for it, starting at an outrageous $30 per month. I just don't see that it's worth that to the average user.