Microsoft has ChatGPT, Google has Bard, and Amazon has Alexa which only operates in simple commands, and to be honest, makes us feel like the laughing stock within the tech industry. It would be a big thing if Alexa can become a conversational chatbot so the entire interaction can be voice enabled, given how much resources we already poured into Alexa org. Can Amazon pull it off and make Alexa to be a conversational chatbot? TC: 150k #amazon #alexa
What is the underlying tech there? Seems like it's more naively categorizing requests and providing routine responses or reading from the web, vs generative AI.
Haven't seen much from Amazon in terms of generative models but not sure what they're sitting on
Internally lot of pressure will be there to do something about it. It will take time.
It's only tuned for weather and lights . . In sure no one else expects more from it right now
Isnt it already, not a smart one though.
Amazon has been blocking ChatGPT based Alexa skills. I have no doubt they are racing to incorporating LLM chat bot into Alexa same as Apple with Siri and Google with their assistant.
Alexa wants to charge me $4 a month for free radio. This just as far as it’s intelligence goes.
I'm in Alexa AI, management has their ass on fire and is deprioritizing other goals to work more on large language models and build something similar here. Clearly, they missed the boat and are too incompetent to build anything meaningful soon.
I expected this. Having worked Alexa for 3 years. With no revenue, they will be under pressure.
If we had competent leadership and hiring, maybe. Currently our quicksight can't have more than 15 rows in a pivot table so I'm voting no.
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