Here at DERP Group, a common topic of conversation is that of "semantic vs syntactic" language for voice assistants, specifically Alexa. The real crux of the discussion is "How do you get a voice assistant to do what you mean, rather than what you say?" This question was was one of the driving forces behind our creation of DiceBot, as we explain in more detail after the break...

I started asking Alexa to roll various types of dice.  Things were going well, until I tried to trick her into doing the impossible...

To her credit, she wanted no part of rolling a zero sided die. That would just be crazy talk...