Amazon has infused its famed assistant Alexa with the power of artificial intelligence — an upgrade that’s apparently come with some serious drawbacks and headaches. To test it, Verge senior reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy was able to get early access to Alexa’s new ChatGPT-like smart home experience. “Today, running on underpowered hardware and with what feels like a surface-level integration into my smart home, Alexa Plus often leaves me frustrated,” Pattison Tuohy wrote. The “Hard Fork” hosts were also dogged by issues with tech’s reliability, with Newton’s cohost Kevin Roose finding that Alexa Plus had lost the “ability to reliably set and cancel alarms” — a “core thing that I use this product for.”“And so I said to Alexa, ‘Alexa, cancel the alarm,'” he said on the show. This is a command that I have issued probably 1,000 times.”More on Alexa AI: Amazon’s New Alexa AI Sounds Like a Dystopian Nightmare