Yeah, I thought this way as well. But we've been using Alexa for random actions that become fairly normalized. It's connected to our sound machine, it can turn on lights, it clears out notifications, it's fun for the kids, and it does give us quick info.

It's definitely not a huge part of our lives, but it's now integrated in with some small things that we're fairly happy with it. I think it comes down to what you want to use it for. Someone just keeping it around in hopes that maybe they'll have some interesting discussion with AI is really just buying into a consumer fappening, but if you have actual networking solutions you apply it to then it becomes kind of useful.

I use mine on daily basis. Set up reminders for work and personal appointments on the run, multiple lights attached to it and voice activated or put on schedule. Can watch cameras I have set up or drop into other areas of the house to see and talk to others.

My young son cannot call me on the phone but he knows how to voice activate to drop into my office from his room if he needs me.

Totally. I almost never use Google assistant on my phone. It's just not very good for what I do with my phone and almost anything assistant can do, I can do faster myself.

The only time I use it is when I am physically unable to pick up or touch my phone for whatever reason, and when I go to bed and say "hey Google, wake me up at <whatever time>"

(I have a highly irregular morning schedule and don't always need to wake up at the same time)

kinda makes me feel like technology wont go anywhere with waste of times like this device. i agree voice assistants have went almost nowhere the past DECADE