#digitalassistants — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalassistants, aggregated by home.social.
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Ah, the classic "AI will replace human jobs" trope, now with the added twist of dodging cookies and JavaScript warnings. 🤖🍪 Because who needs a graduate student when you can "hire" a digital assistant that can't even load a webpage correctly? 🙄🚀
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-i-may-hire-ai-instead-graduate-student #AIjobs #automation #technology #digitalassistants #webdevelopment #HackerNews #ngated -
Android Authority: Months after the promised change, Google Home is as unreliable as it ever was. “Hundreds of users are still complaining about Gemini, or Assistant, or both on Reddit. Commands that don’t work, routines that refuse to execute, mishearing, mis-executing, black-box troubleshooting when something fails, and on top of it all, a Gemini AI that is as good as throwing a ball at a […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/25/android-authority-months-after-the-promised-change-google-home-is-as-unreliable-as-it-ever-was/ -
Mashable: Alexa+ is now available to everyone in the US, and free for Prime members. “For ages, Alexa has been a staple of Amazon Echo devices, serving as the loyal voice assistant. But Amazon is upgrading Miss Alexa to Alexa+, an assistant that does far more than play music and answer your questions. Alexa+ is Amazon’s AI assistant coming to all Echo devices for Prime members. Not a Prime […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/09/mashable-alexa-is-now-available-to-everyone-in-the-us-and-free-for-prime-members/ -
Who is Diella? AI minister is ‘pregnant with 83 children,’ claims Albania PM https://www.byteseu.com/1493575/ #AIInGovernment #AIMinister #Albania #AntiCorruption #ArtificialIntelligence #Diella #DigitalAssistants #EAlbania #EdiRama #Governance #MicrosoftAI #ParliamentaryWork #PublicProcurement #Transparency #VirtualMinister
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Geoffrey Litt: Stevens: a hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs. “In this short post, I’ll show you how I built a useful AI assistant for my family using a dead simple architecture: a single SQLite table of memories, and a handful of cron jobs for ingesting memories and sending updates, all hosted on Val.town. The whole thing is so simple that you can […]
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MediaPost: Google Battles Consumers Over Accidental Recordings By Voice-Activated Devices. “Google is urging a federal judge to dismiss a class-action lawsuit by users of voice-activated devices who allege that the company wrongly recorded their conversations and shared snippets with outside parties.”