There's nothing wrong with toys. There's everything wrong with a "Super smart alive and aware AI" hype fest when what they mean is it's a partially functional google assistant with a pareidolic face.
> what is possibly fun and cute about amazon echo and google home just sitting there doing nothing
https://www.reddit.com/r/eyebombing/comments/5nttde/google_h...
Boom, solved. Look at how adorable that is. You could even put a hat on it.