One other thing that fascinates me about this AI is the choices Alexa makes. My father, knowing I like Steely Dan, said to Alexa, "play Steely Dan", without choosing any particular song. Alexa chose to start by playing Deacon Blues, and followed that with Black Cow. Those are good songs, but if I would have guessed, Alexa would have started off with more well known songs like "Peg", or "Hey Nineteen." How did she make those song selections? Then my father asked Alexa to play Neil Diamond without specifying any particular song, and Alexa chose some obscure song I did not immediately recognize. Of course if you ask her to play a specific song, she immediately will do so.
My father, being 85 and not always able to remember things quickly, often asks Alexa that which he cannot remember. We were talking about Apple and my father mentioned that there is a Polish co-founder of Apple, but he could not remember his name. So he asked "Alexa, who are the founders of Apple?" And she ticked off all 3 founders including the Polish guy, Steve Wozniak. He also has Alexa remember his task list for the week and he asked her the task list and she read it off to him. These Echos, as mentioned earlier in the thread, are a GREAT present for an elderly relative, so long as they still have the majority of their wits about them. Which my father fortunately does.
BTW he is on a tech roll as he also recently purchased on his own one of those iRobot Roombas:
Elevate your cleaning routine with the Roomba i3 evo Robot Vacuum. Experience powerful performance and intelligent navigation for effortless cleaning
store.irobot.com
These things are fascinating but his dog is a bit freaked out by it. She chases and barks at it, but when it makes a robotized movement, she jumps back, as if freaked out. She does not know what to make of it, and cannot seem to decide whether it is friend or foe.
