AI Voice Assistants Struggle with Smart Home Control in 2025
By
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
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Summary
The article discusses how generative AI-powered voice assistants like Alexa Plus have failed to improve smart home functionality in 2025, despite promises to simplify device control. The author shares personal experiences of AI assistants struggling with basic tasks like running coffee machine routines and turning on lights, questioning whether AI will ever reliably manage smart homes. The piece examines the gap between AI's potential to reduce smart home complexity and its current unreliable performance in everyday use.
Key quotes
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Ever since I upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon's generative-AI-powered voice assistant, it has failed to reliably run my coffee routine, coming up with a different excuse almost every time I ask.
Generative AI assistants were supposed to improve our smart home devices; instead, AI now struggles to turn on the lights or run a coffee machine's routine.
The potential for generative AI and large language models to take the complexity out of the smart home, making it easier to set up, use, and manage connected devices.
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