What Are Some Of The Stupid Requests You Make To Your Google Nest?

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Hey Google, how long is a piece of string?

Hey Google, do you have a friend named Yahoo?

Hey Google, why am I talking to a little round box?

It's very infuriating when it closes down....then you take on the third person thing, view yourself talking to a device, Hey Google......Hey Google.....Hey Google....wondering why it's not answering back, and think........Ok, is it really listening to me when I'm saying it's a useless piece of digital shit after continually trying.......so that's why it ignores me? I unplug it....yeah, take that. Plug it back in, answers me once, then closes down...............Got it in for me I'm sure :)

Waiting for the female voice to come back and say.........You dumb male arsehole, (not Asshole mind you)....You have now been denied access from the internet, for ten years.............................Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...:)
 
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I found out I was being to polite....At first I kept saying Hello Google, it would light up, then go dark...Hello Google......Hello Google...

Then my love said you are supposed to say...Hey Google. Duh. She was the one who got it for me............I'm thinking there may be sinister plot afoot, although I'm yet to discover what it is :)

I listen to Thunderstorm sound stuff, thats about it....or ask it to tell me a joke....has some good Dad ones :) :)
 

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I thought of something last night about this, mentioned it to my love.

The device has become pretty popular in households with young families. It can be classed as sort of an educational device also. Perhaps it's just me, but it's not teaching manners is it.

Start of by saying Hey Google, then request, stupid thing is I say please by habit most of the time. Then when the request is granted, a quick thanks or thank you blurts out from me, habit again. Yet no recognition from the little AI device like, ...No worries or you are welcome, or an, all good.

Was always taught to be at least polite when growing up, seems AI will teach different.

So if kids one day say...Hey you, make their request, you do it for them, don't get a thanks or recognition of your effort......ask Google :)
 

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My Love has She Who Listens/She Who Shall Not Be Named. Three I’m aware of.
The Echo controls on and off for some lights, televisions ( and his remotes allow speech command).
It’s all so… needless.
However, I say please and thank you reflexively, and on rare occasions they respond with “no one ever says thank you. It’s nice.”

Now I’m thinking of all the AI movies….
 

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Like a Goo Goo cluster?

Oh, he saw this video of this old woman trying to talk to Google with a heavy accent. And he loved it! So, the minute he turned it on he said she will now respond to Hey Goo Goo. I still call her Siri or Alexa. I can't remember what's in one room or the next.

I'll say Siri, and my phone goes off as well as his iPad and goodness knows what else.

We live in a crazy house.
 

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I wonder though at times, just how much it listens too. When you address it, it lights up. Does it really have no ears when it doesn't light up. After all..... it must hear you when the light is off, for it to be activated to lights on.................spose that goes for all voice activation, it always has to be listening.

Think it has a mic off button though......but is it really off.........:)
 
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Whenever anybody says, “hey Google” and asks a question, everyone’s phone goes off and gives the answer. That can be up to five phones at a time!