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Amazon’s CEO dropped a big hint about how a new AI version of Alexa is going to compete with chatbots like ChatGPT Jason Del Rey Updated November 1, 2024 at 3:38 PM
In the default mode, the device continuously listens to all speech, monitoring for the wake word to be spoken, which is primarily set up as "Alexa" (derived from Alexa Internet, the Amazon-owned Internet indexing company). Echo's microphones can be manually disabled by pressing a mute button to turn off the audio processing circuit. [3]
Within hours, Alexa staff members began testing it and found that the software code they asked it to generate for controlling certain Alexa features was “at times better than those from Amazon ...
Amazon Alexa, or, Alexa, [2] is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. [3] [4] It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Amazon Echo Dot, Echo Studio and Amazon Tap speakers developed by Amazon Lab126.
Alexa-powered Echo devices can also make phone calls, either to numbers in your contact list (which can be imported into the Alexa app) or any number you ask Alexa to dial. One exception: 911.
Brewster Lurton Kahle (/ k eɪ l / KAYL; [4] born October 21, 1960) [2] is an American digital librarian, [5] computer engineer, Internet entrepreneur, and advocate of universal access to all knowledge.
Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in the unit that handles its popular voice assistant Alexa as it plows more resources into artificial intelligence. In a note to employees on Friday, Daniel ...
Alexa desperately needs an LLM upgrade to compete with the new breed of chatbots from the likes of OpenAI and Google. But a lack of data and other obstacles have stymied Amazon's efforts.