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I was given a "Smart Speaker" as a festive present (Dec 2022) and despite having shunned such tech previously I thought I would give it a chance to shine. I listen to "radio" streams a lot so asked the Google Assistant to play a favourite station. Response was along the lines of "I can't play that right now but you could ask me to play it on a different device". Moving on I asked it to play some Harpsichord music. Response was something like "Here is a harpsichord playlist from Deezer". I listened to three tracks of non harpsichord tunes and then switched it off. After a couple of weeks of "Sorry I don't understand", I decided that I should change the assistant to a male type so as to avoid becoming a misogynist. Having realised that in fact the system may be smart but its not intelligent, I asked it to define "smart". The response was that smart most commonly relates to a person who is clean, tidy and well dressed. Its certainly clean and well dressed but I wouldn't say that having the operational indicators on the front and power switch and battery level (its a portable unit) on the back is tidy.
The unit is now mostly switched off, in the hope that someday a future update might make it intelligent.