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Now here's some news that is a really big deal to me. It won't mean anything to the rest of you. The rest of you won't care about this a bit. But this is transformative to my actual daily experience. So Amazon is finally coming up with an AI version of its digital assistant, whose name I will not say so I don't activate yours at home, but Alexa. And as you know, I've been hooked on that product for a long time. I have one in most of my rooms that matter, including this one. And so my daily life involves walking around, and then when I have a question I just say it out loud. You know, I just ask my digital device as I'm walking through the room. You know, what time is it? What's the weather? What will the weather be at this time? Where's my package? You know, I always have some kind of little question, sometimes math, you know, some fact. But it's not great compared to AI, and it doesn't always recognize what you're asking, whereas AI will be way better at recognizing what you're saying.

So my great dream had been that my experience would be like a Starship captain in my own house, and that I could literally ask anything or even have a conversation with my computer just by talking, and it would just hear me and talk back. And it looks like that's going to be available in a month or so. $19.99 per month. $19.99. Wow, I'm so glad it's not $20, because at $20 I would have said, huh, you know, that's a little pricey. But $19.99? I don't know. Am I being manipulated? That seems so c