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

Jul 20, 2025 - 14:12
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I asked Alexa Plus to tackle my to-do list — it mostly failed
Alexa Plus’s AI agent can navigate websites and book things for you, but it needs to verify its dates.

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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