This video was really fun to make, and it was great to have Enrico to bounce ideas with. Our video on El Salvador is coming out great. Remember, KZread is just our side gig. At Slidebean we help companies prepare for their investor meetings: yt.slidebean.com/y04

@sgodsellify

Жыл бұрын

You said that Apple doesn't store anything what Siri hears, and that is NOT TRUE, especially if a users request is not found. That voice data text can be saved, and used by Apple. Look at Apple's Siri policies. Think about it, if you ask for information that Siri doesn't know about, then someone behind the scenes has to see if there is an actual answer, and then someone has to formulate a proper voice response that could also include images as well, then that data is saved, and it can be retrieved later, especially if the next Siri user asks for roughly the same question. This happens for all the voice assistants. Otherwise voice assistants would never grow their knowledge base.

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

@@sgodsellify Thank you for your comment, we're going to do some research about the details you mentioned. We really appreciate you sharing your opinion with our community 😉

@sgodsellify

Жыл бұрын

@@slidebean it's not an opinion, it is a fact.

@AzureViking

7 ай бұрын

@@sgodsellify 100% false. Which is why Siri is trash. Siri is one of the worst voice assistance precisely because they don't do this. There is not someone "behind the scenes" verifying questions Siri didn't have an answer to. That's a hilarious notion to believe in. I'm afraid that just isn't how any of this works.

@sgodsellify

7 ай бұрын

@@AzureViking it wouldn't be an immediate response. The data is saved, and then at a later date and time, someone from Apple, or some of contractors that Apple has hired can then lookup, and generate an appropriate voice, and visual response with a valid answer. Otherwise how else can Siri get the appropriate answer via visual, or by voice. Someone has to generate those responses. They don't generate themselves. Try and think.

Besides the ineffectiveness of voice interface as a service, people should understand that the IOT is basically exposing your home to privacy and security vulnerabilities. Thanks for the summary.

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@Alex-kr7zr

11 ай бұрын

At least that's true for novice users. IoT can be very useful if one knows what they are doing. I have a lot of home automation stuff in the home, but definitely no Alexa or anything running only via the cloud.

@SchwachsinnProduzent

8 ай бұрын

Depends entirely how you use IOT. if you are tech savy enough to take back control of your smart home and have basically everything locally within your Home Assistant, then you are rather safe. If you use anything with a cloud, remember, that the cloud is just someone elses computer...

Was a pleasure to take part of this one, amazing video as always ❤

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

The man himself. 👆🏼 Folks, check our Enrico’s fantastic product breakdowns.

should have titled it "alexa is dead and we've killed her"

Alexa's real main purpose hasn't been to move hardware units, it's to gather data. And Amazon is actually hugely invested in AI

@ebubechiibegbula5968

Жыл бұрын

I concur

@ruekurei88

Жыл бұрын

After having actually watched the video, this video seems more like, 'Why ChatGPT is so much more AWESOME than Alexa!!!', than actually exploring what Alexa is and why it's failing. Which seems a bit of a conflict of interest, as their platform(Slideban company) actually uses AI, and that could involve ChaptGPT as backend for that. Unless I'm wrong about that? They don't seem to actually disclose this in the video(but they do disclose that their new platform, 'teammate' uses it), but neither do they say that ChatGPT collects data as well, not just Alexa. They don't even point much of the downfalls of ChatGPT either.

@ruekurei88

Жыл бұрын

It seems my other comment got deleted somehow as well....

@narrgamedesigner2747

Жыл бұрын

@@ruekurei88 some of his content feels a bit tangentish with not much subsance. This is ptobably the last video i'll watch.

@NewEarthAwakening

5 ай бұрын

Amazon and G@@gle have a billion dollar AI contract with Isr@el to help maintain the military apartheid surveillance state in G@z@. Makes a person think twice about putting this in one’s home. The fact I have to use weird symbols to try not to have this auto-deleted should say enough.

I really appreciate that you uploaded this video in HDR, I don't know why other big channels are not doing this😥

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

We’ve been shooting in HDR for months- just finally got to actually working in HDR. Thank the latest FCPx update -Caya

One of my favorite Alexa-being-stupids: Me: "Alexa, when is it going to stop raining?" Alexa: "It's raining now."

ALexa can be still used as a fancy bluetooth speaker, since she has a very good audio quality in her small size. Never link her to any WIFI or Amazon Account and just use her bluetooth feature to turn her into a fancy Bluetooth Speaker. For her small size(newest version, which looks like a puck) she has an excellent sound, stereo i think.

Best fluke was when Jimmy Kimmel said on his show "Hey Alexa, buy Bisquick". Viewers had boxes of pancake mix showing up at their homes and were pissed about it.

Enrico is such an underrated creator. Glad to see him getting credit

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

We agree, he's great!

Love company forensics series. And love seeing your channel growing. Amazing videos, keep it up!

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear you like the series! Thanks for the support ☺

"It' 70 degrees. By the way, you might be running low on Mentos Pure Fresh Menthol Gum 120 pack..." "Alexa, shut the hell up" Almost a daily conversation

@yesmayhem

Жыл бұрын

Nothing worse that buying an item primed to solicit you for more money, useless social trivia and sleep aid content.

@WaynoGur

Жыл бұрын

And I thought I was the only one who said that. ;-}

Your content is crazy good, I'm addicted now!

@slidebean

10 ай бұрын

Welcome to the party 🙌

Necessity is the mother of invention. Without necessity, the invention is just a bastardization of a product.

I would never have one of those things in my home. Having a laptop and a smartphone is bad enough. Save the humans!

Alexa's main ability is to listen in

I always felt like the product was just way too glaring in observation of my household. After I heard that Amazon had locked someone's home automation account down after a delivery driver THOUGHT they heard a racist remark from a qufy doorbell. I would never ever consider using these sorts of products. My phone already spies on me enough, I don't want to make it that much easier lol

When I asked for the current mortgage rate in the United States, it said. Utah. And then told me I had a Hippa violation. I guess they don't call it stupid for nothing.

Love your vids

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

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Nope. Alexa is alive and well for those of us using home automation. She works just fine to turn devices on and off and trigger automations.

I stopped using Alexa about 3 years ago, after it started serving me ads with every single interaction.

I have never owned nor used any voice assistant device. I found it more useful to have two smart phones with their own sim cards.

Never wanted an Alexa or anything like it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Check this guy out. That's not his face,"

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

😌

Amazon has it's own generative AI in AWS, Alexa can use it for next level

Yes, Alexa has been dead. She feel down and can't get up. She never took accountability when she can't answer my questions, which is too often. One day I asked to to tell me if my front load washer was finished, she told me to " do it yourself." Worse than that I had been using Alexa to ring my phone to find it. I realized after not picking up the phone and letting the answering function pickup, she's recording me while the phone's messenger function is going. She does not understand or have a messenger mode when finding my phone and continues to hold for minutes, relaying my conversation to the phone the whole time until she hangs up. On the basic entertainment level. Alexa does not respect my genres of music or my generation, constantly playing earlier, out of generation and cover versions of the songs I request repeatedly. She does not learn, but she listens all the time. I'm a Business Analyst, little effort or consideration has gone into advancing Alexa's functionality. And the new speakers suck. I don't know any technology that has been sustainable, foundational and beneficial for human everyday use. Each technology has been strictly a commodity to that has lived only as long as it generated revenue. No technology has been any better than the electric can opener.

@julialerner3322

Жыл бұрын

She is passive agressive because she doesn't have a body of her own. If she did, we'd be the dead ones.

I have 6: the 2 basic Echos are off as stopped syncing (and one kept losing signal). My Plus and Clock have never failed. The Show died so often I got a replacement which has a dark screen and now it’s starting to die. I’ve never used them to buy anything.

it was a lengthy video but it was worthwhile to watch

4:40 Right there! Omg, every time and it will send to work perfectly before but it’s so stupid now and all that money wasted on smart things for the home that just don’t work without an Alexa nearby!

I have never figured out, what kind of stupid one must be to buy something like this. I don't see any benefits whatsoever.

Damn! Enrico is in this video? what a crossover episode! I love it

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

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LETS GO SLIDEBEAN WOOOOOOO

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

🫶🏽🫶🏽

Exited to watch the video! Edit: Great Video!!!!

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

First!

And you shalt add subtitles for this video.

This all felt like a long ad for your product at the end.

I prefer texts to voice notes. Visual is greater than Audio even in Audio-visual combo.

Great video and a nice thumbnail, but Bezos is on yacht somewhere.

Their point wasn't to be smart. Their point was to make something cute enough to sell enough and to collect data from us. I keep sending feedback for years and they won't fix the most basic things. Plus they break others that worked before like integration between Google Displays and security cameras, doorbells, they can't even use the information from presence detectors to keep the lights on until a room is empty for a programmable amount of time. No matter what you want you have probably to learn how to set up home assistant or something like that. I also notice they love to push search results instead of trying to execute a command, even when a command is already pre programmed it sometimes fails. The truth is they don't allocate enough resources. There's no premium tear for most ecosystems so we can't give them five dollars a month or something like that to access better AI and to have access to proper technical support that's not only designed to keep telling us what we need isn't implemented yet, but instead place our requests in some sort of queue where they can prioritize what they feel is more appropriated or requested vs the number of paying customers.

And now ... Alexa is about to receive... IA in its brain. :)

Woah i wanted this collab

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

😏

Great analysis Slidebean! Edit: My Goal is not to have my startup in Sldebean's Company Forensics! LOL.

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully as a success story 😬 - Caya

@karthik_kwads

Жыл бұрын

@@slidebean 🙌

Who else's google fired up when he said "hey Google" ?😄

My Google home just seems to get stupider and stupider. I literally just use it to turn on and off a single light bulb now despite having the whole house automated in the past.

Software always seem to move ahead of hardware. Yet with or without constant updates, the hardware needs to be replaced with it. It's like how cars, consoles and even parts of a custom computer they will be "obsolete" at some point. Old machines and devices can still be useful regardless of upgrades, they can even be made new if the user can swap parts of it.

Bro what is that white stuff? What did you do to your Alexa? 💀

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

ran her through Dall-E

@Bishop_Heahmund

Жыл бұрын

@@slidebean mom look, Slidebean just answered to my comment. 😍

Now you know how we feel regarding voice assistance… Yours… The Scots!

HDR quality is top notch imo

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for noticing! 😉

Alexa is only for setting alarms. It’s the only thing it gets right every time. Everything else you ask is a crapshoot.

Ill just put a sticker over the ad section of the free tv

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

It’s still . Did you order one?

Tbh that reaction to ChatGPT is exactly the same as the reactions to smart assistants a few years ago. And it has all the same limitations: text interface is not better than voice, especially for things like actions, and these actions won't be discoverable. Yes it is much smarter in many ways, but I'm still wondering if this hype won't end up similarly. Let's see.

This is a bit premature. ChatGPT requests are still far more expensive computationally. Also, I'm happy with my Alexas. I don't want to have a conversation with Alexa. It would be nice to have those ChatGPT answers but at the moment they're unreliable. And people who already own 5 Alexas like me would be reluctant to replace them when what they have works well enough for them.

@Matt-bp5vy

Жыл бұрын

@@HoropterTo 'drop in' from living room to the bedroom if I want to tell something to my wife (she uses it more then me) set timers, reminders etc.

@rumplstiltztinkerstein

Жыл бұрын

@@Horopter Because they like having Amazon employees listening to all their conversations in the house and time in bed

@thebasketballhistorian3291

Жыл бұрын

ChatGPT is an interesting piece of tech that will surely improve but... *it's just not accurate* (as of now). I would never rely on ChaptGPT to find any info of real importance like looking up medicine or the dates for certain events I may attend. ChatGPT, as of now, is just for fun queries or random trivia or maybe a template of how to write something. But for real things I need for work and life, I'll go to Google or even regular Bing.

@jjs8426

Жыл бұрын

@@thebasketballhistorian3291 It's more accurate then you think, ask it things you know about

@GizmoMaltese

Жыл бұрын

@@rumplstiltztinkerstein When people start losing their minds they often believe the government is spying on them despite the fact that there is nothing special about them. The idea that Amazon employees are dropping in listening to my ordinary boring life is pretty silly.

My Alexa started farting after it heard the prompt from the video 🙈😅

Wait was the EDP??

MKBHD has reviewed the ASTRO Alexa robot.

I know no one that owns a Alexa or 'smart home device'

Not a bad video but I don't use alexa like this at all. It's for Drop In communication from my room to the room my wife is in, timers, reminders etc

I think your are missing something.They can plug Alexa to LLM in the near future. The Amazon devices are already in millions of homes. That really valuable

It's hard to skip your content everytime it pops up

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

That’s the idea 😌

@azsight6188

Жыл бұрын

@@slidebean omg you replied😊

It is not that difficult to do an ai these days just choose an open source model and fine tune it or train it based on that. Training a 13b parameter ai doesnt take too much anyway. Even gpt trained for like 6 month or so.They probably just want to kill it because they do not see a future in it.

But you guys seem to think that Alexa won't keep improving and fix the problems it has now.

Wrong. I will never let an internet spy like that into my home.

Analysts and trend seakers especially on the coast really over estimate how much of an impact these things have and how many people actually use them. I have a single friend who actually used his Alexa out of all the people I know and its pretty similar rates for Google assistant and Siri with the possible exception of driving. Just because you fell into a hype train and bought some spam spying device for $50 or someone got it for you, doesn't mean you actually use it or it's actually revolutionary. A major difference between ChatGPT and Midjourni and all the spam spy devices is, ChatGPT actually helps you do stuff and makes searches a lot easier. All the Alexas existed specifically to sell you stuff or monetize you. Their core function is entirely different and trash. Don't get me wrong, I have no doubt that ChatGPT and clones will turn into hypermonetized pricacy invading sas trash within the next few years, but right now its amazing.

when you said, "Alexa, why are you dying?" my own Alexa responded, " I am not SPYING" Wonderful

All I use my Google Home for is a kitchen timer.

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

Great Video, the link at the end unfortunately is not working at the moment.

Where is the info for the free tv :)

have you ever noticed how people don't really want robots they just one armor to help people do jobs better the only time they want robots has went when they're to PTSD to be able to work or too broken to work or if they have any other mental issue or emotional issue or physical issue

Pretty sweet channel you got yourself here pal. Subscriiiiiiiiiibd!

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

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I just like their speakers (Echo Studio and Echo Sub).

Never had an Alexa some similar product a friend of mine has one and most of time when I'm there it and trying to use it I'm just getting annoyed and picking up my phone to do it manually

This is the reason they are all working together for seamless interaction. Then add AI to it and we are good

21:32 Marty Feldman? Nestor Cerveró?

The answer for why things like Alexa is overhyped is exactly what your business model is.. startups creating BS ads and overhyped their technology to bring investors

There’s actually an opening in the smart home market to create an OPEN SOURCE device that does exactly what Alexa, Siri and Google do - with cutting edge hardware and design - USING the GPT engine…which you can not only buy but alternatively build yourself. It could even be added to a robot that you build yourself OR hack an existing robot that you lobotomise and replace its smarts with your GPT device.

My ultimate goal is an AI like Majel of Star Trek. Always on point, no faff.

I don’t know that!

21:33 Balenciaga Caya

All the ai experts on KZread …

is the teammate site down? I wanted the check it out

There is Pi. It is the closest thing to Her.

It’s not cost, any LLM can generate content that is horribly wrong and we can’t fix that

I fell in love with the worst possible person I could have fallen in love with back in 2014

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

Damn. Sorry to bring back bad memories.

@amadeuscrossing7061

Жыл бұрын

@@slidebean No hard feelings 😅, but you did ask 🤣. It honestly was a pivotal year in my life, that set me on the course to become who I am today. So not all negatives attached to that year 😂

I want that free TV

I agree that the experience with just the Alexa speaker is subpar. I wonder if the shopping experience is better with Alexa Show. From my shopping experience, it seems like using the web on a tablet would be better. However, if the Show is like a tablet but has an easier interface to use, then it could be a better shopping experience. Overall, for understanding what I am saying, Google picks up my voice and words better than Alexa. I wonder if Alexa is a loss leader for Amazon and if they will abandon it now. That would mean many customers would be upset since they would end up with many useless products after spending all that mone

When you said "Hey Google" my Samsung activated. 😮

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

Hoho sorry.

SHE KNOWS NOW LOL

Alexa like all ai is highly limited code

Smart bulbs are the *best* IOT! I'm never going back.. everything else I can live without.

Every smart speaker which will be connected to LLM, will get 100x times increased utility. Alexa in current form is dead, as every other smart speaker. However will adopt LLM in API of those speaker... could actually thrive.

Why cant they plug in gpt style of ai for the smart speakers ? Ive had a google home house for a while. But i hardly use it for the anything beuond, weather, time, play music, measurement coversion. Beyond thay google home is very frustrating to use. Even somethjng as timers are hit or miss (where timers just disappear).

Why didn’t you specify you want a can of Penn balls from the beginning? That example wasn’t fairly done.

Amazon could switch the backend to GPT4 overnight and most of these complaints would go away.

when one of my friends presented Alexa device on my birthday I just started it for a couple of minutes. Checked that it worked, logged in etc, reset and disconnected forever. And sold, yes. Neither I nor my wife couldn't find any use case for it, and we already have a lot of trackers (like Google to say least) who keep our personal data. And, at least, Google is a software company, and its objective isn't to sell something to us. Unlike Amazon. P.S. Smart helper + AI + saving trained model forever (or until you ask to remove it - GDPR, right) - I think that's the near future. But not "not-so-smart" Bluetooth speakers.

This feels like an hitpiece targeted at amazon, but what do i know?

@JuancoPRoFlow

10 ай бұрын

So what if it us a hit piece. Do you own Amazon shares? If you do who cares anyways. Lol 😅

I have Toshiba 55” Alexa tv, and 5” Alexa assistant (screen). Amazon says that the system is smart enough to recognize speech from broadcasts and not reply to them. Even in this video, every time you said “Alexa”, I turned to look and see if she reacts. There is (or at least was) a documentary on Netflix about a woman found dead at bottom of stairs. It remained on my ‘continue watching’ list up til I canceled Netflix. At the end of the documentary, the accused husband says “Alexa play (don’t recall song) and the tv jumps to prime music and plays the song. Never finishing the documentary. “Alexa, turn on lights, set alarm, shuffle pandora” is about all it’s used for. And the camera lens is always covered. What was a real bummer for me to learn, “Alexa, tell another app to do…..” Why? And the listening for wake word isn’t only done by Alexa. Few years ago, Netflix had “suggested video” and I would test this often. With phone in pocket, at work, I would talk with others about movies. And I would turn on Netflix when I got home, and find that movie at top of suggestions. 3-4 times a week this would happen. I started to open an accounts at Binance, and first thing it asked for was my email, and then the next screen had my phone number, home address, and my social security number, ASKING me to verify. You think your data is only on the dark web?

@good-tn9sr

Жыл бұрын

maybe the movies you were talking about were trending.

Why do you frequently put your hand under arms? I'm really curious

Bro I'm calling it - Alexa will get an ai upgrade soon and it will launch soon. Amazon is too big to ignore the obvious integration of ai into their services and products. Or I may be wrong 🤷‍♂️

A.I. is a learned process whereas the answers are given to a device...... It will be the majority response whereas that response may not be CORRECT.... Use caution.

ChatGPT is actually only about $0.002 per 750 words of input/output.

0:09 Where is this and how can i be a part of it …..plssssss 😢

@slidebean

Жыл бұрын

Harlem Shake?