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And for some reason voice commands for podcasts have never been figured out.

"Play a different episode"

"Sorry, I have no idea how to do that"

Them: Be scared. AI is really smart and is going to take your job.

In fairness, I think there's reasons they're intentionally making it different to select what you want to play... but WTF is up with that, too.

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My favorite is, some time around last summer, whenever I told Google to play the latest episode of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, it invariably plays some random unrelated (not even a similar name) music on Spotify.

I have no idea if this would work with Google, but I've noticed with Alexa it seems less likely to play a song when I ask for a non-song if I tell it to "listen" to the non-song rather than to "play" the non-song.

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