I asked Alexa Plus to tackle my to-do list — it mostly failed

One of the best features of Amazon’s new Alexa Plus is that I don’t have to “speak Alexa” anymore. I’ve been testing the voice assistant

for about a week now, and it understands what I say, regardless of how I say it – there’s no more need for precise phrasing to get Alexa to do what I want. This big shift underpins another headline feature of the revamped generative AI-powered assistant that I’ve been testing: agentic AI. But this one needs work.

The idea is I can talk to Alexa Plus as I would to a real personal assistant and ask it to do tasks, such as reserving a restaurant for my friend’s birthday, finding an electrician to fix my brok …

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