Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito

Column At the annual spectacular of crap that we optimistically term the Consumer Electronics Show, I found myself locked into a room with Alexa. And yes, disembodied AI servant though she may be, she still filled every corner of a rather spacious room with all of the various products now connected to and enabled by Alexa - everything from alarm clocks to refrigerators to automobiles to - kitchen taps? Kohler Konnect (klever) ties a connected kitchen water tap into Alexa, because... "Alexa, pour me 500ml of water." The Kohler Konnect is a kitchen robot of sorts, very good at doing exactly one thing - pouring out precisely the amount of water you need. Is that enough to justify Alexifying a kitchen?