"Coming to its Bosch 800 Series fully automatic espresso machines, the upgrade allows Alexa users to talk with the machine via an Echo smart speaker "as naturally as speaking to a local barista - customizing drinks, routines, and preferences through conversation," according to the company. The Bosch 800 Series is one of only a couple of countertop coffee makers that work with Alexa voice control."
"Before Alexa Plus, asking regular Alexa to make me a coffee based on a routine I set up in the Alexa app mostly worked fine. But since the new assistant arrived, Alexa has been frequently confused. This is an example of one of the biggest challenges of revamping voice assistants with generative AI. The new versions find it harder to do some of the more straightforward tasks their predecessors excelled at."
Bosch introduced a Personal AI Barista, Powered by Alexa Plus, for its Bosch 800 Series fully automatic espresso machines to enable conversational control via Echo speakers for customized drinks, routines, and preferences. The Bosch 800 Series is among few countertop coffee makers with Alexa voice control. Testing revealed that Alexa Plus sometimes fails to consistently make coffee via voice command, while regular Alexa previously executed routine-based coffee-making more reliably. Generative-AI-powered assistants can struggle with straightforward tasks that earlier versions handled well, creating a renewed need for individual integrations and refinements.
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