How will Alexa need to respond to body language? A voice-over expert’s evaluation of AMAZON’s promises of capabilities beyond chatbot

Prasad says that upgrading Alexa’s language skills required extensive engineering, because the large language models that power services like ChatGPT can make up facts, blurt out nonsense, and be downright inappropriate. “Especially given certain limitations of language models, this is a huge leap,” Prasad says.

To gain access to a test of Amazon’s new technology, users will have to apply, as some of the devices that can be used are not made by Amazon. New features would include the ability to discuss and recommend products from the vast inventory of products that the company has.

AMAZON’s promising things like responding to body language, are extremely challenging. She says that body language has no way of structuring it in the same way as written language. If Alexa misreads someone’s posture or movements and responds incorrectly, things could get awkward. The attempts to mimic human personality and feeling are unlikely to match human capabilities for some time, as stated by Cassell. Sometimes the new voice-enabled device, known as the “Alexa”, will feel a little out of place.

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