It was not the Amazon Skills revolution that was happening
Amazon skipped its annual’hardware event’ in Los Angeles this year due to reports that the company was far from achieving its promised new voice assistant. This comes amid reports that the new voice assistant could be months away from being available. Alexa was launched in 2015 and reportedly has over 1.6 lakh different skills on its platform.
Where’s my Star Trek computer?
Amazon has admitted that it lost $10 million in the early days of Amazon’s Alexa. The company said it “didn’t do enough” to incentivise developers to use the platform for skill development. “We knew we didn’t have a lot of resources…We didn’t know how to make skills work,” it added. Amazon has now stopped paying developers with credits or cash.
The smart display is hands-on
Amazon has unveiled a smart home control panel called ‘Echo Hub’ that connects to the company’s Alexa platform. It enables users to connect their devices to its network and control them with just one tap. The panel will cost around $399.99 and is available on Amazon.com, Best Buy, and other brick-and-mortar retailers.
This is an ai remake for the person
Amazon’s new voice-enabled device ‘Alexa’ will need to respond to a person’s body language, which is not structured in the same way as written language, a voice-over expert has said. Prasad said that the large language models that power services like ChatGPT can makeup facts, blurt out nonsense, and be downright inappropriate. Prasad added that upgrading Alexa’s language skills required extensive engineering.
A new voice assistant, powered by a LLM, is coming soon
Amazon has announced a new voice-controlled speaker, Alexa, that can manage smart home devices. The new speaker can respond to phrases, interpret context more effectively, and complete multiple requests from one command, Amazon said. Users will be able to ask, “Alexa, I’m cold,” and the assistant should turn up the temperature on a connected thermostat.