In the age of the AI boom, it seems that everything's getting a makeover. The ill-defined software has totally revamped perfectly good products, from workout apps to creative programs like Adobe's Photoshop to search engines like Google — unless you're totally unplugged from the internet, the stuff is nearly unavoidable.

So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the brain trust behind Amazon's Alexa embraced it, too.

Now 11 years old, the all-seeing living room assistant is getting a fresh upgrade in the form of "Alexa+," a fusion of Alexa's classic data surveillance with the hallucinogenic power of generative AI.

On a fresh episode of the New York Times' "Hard Fork" podcast, tech journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discussed the dystopian changes to the Alexa platform and th

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