Amazon’s Alexa isn’t the future of AI—it’s a glorified radio clock and, otherwise, stupid — Quartz

Sometimes Alexa forgets to wake me up in the morning; other times, if the volume hasn’t been turned up all the way, I’ll wake up half an hour late to an alarm that is only one tenth as loud as I want it. But if she loses connection to my WiFi at 3 am, she’ll definitely...