Why the author of AI novel ‘We Lived on the Horizon’ says to unplug Siri and Alexa
Erika Swyler, speculative fiction author of ‘Light from Other Stars’ and ‘The Book of Speculation,’ explores artificial ...
Amazon’s Next-Gen Alexa Held Up By Technical Glitches
The e-commerce and streaming giant used to have the most widely used voice-activated AI before the ChatGPT revolution, but ...
Is Alexa's generative AI upgrade doomed to fail? I hope not
Amazon is working on a generative AI version of Alexa, but is still struggling with problems like hallucinations. AI ...
Letter: Amazon could try a more ‘pedestrian’ AI strategy
The pursuit of 100 per cent reliability in a system where AI makes all decisions autonomously is a folly. Public benchmarks show that state of the art large language models predict a single step with ...
Futurism on MSN3d
Easier said than done.
According to Amazon AI team lead Rohit Prasad, the company still has to solve the problem of "hallucinations" before ...
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Amazon races to transplant Alexa’s ‘brain’ with generative AI
Alexa’s redesign has been in train since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, backed by Microsoft, in late 2022. While Microsoft, Google, Meta and others have quickly embedded generative AI into ...
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Alexa, should voice assistants have a gender?
Studies have long shown that men are more likely to interrupt, particularly when speaking with women. New research by Johns ...
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Is the quiet evolution of a new normal growing up with humans and AI?
Will the AI ecosystem enhance or dilute our humanity? The answer, perhaps, lies in how we choose to nurture this strange, ...
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OpenAI tasks AI assistant to rival Alexa, Siri
Expanding ChatGPT’s utility to include agentic AI, Tasks ramps up competition in the AI assistant space. Since ChatGPT’s ...
OpenAI's new Siri, Alexa rival
U.S., Arab and Israeli officials all tell CBS News that Israel and Hamas have agreed in principle to a ceasefire and ...
OpenAI rolls out assistant-like feature 'Tasks' to take on Alexa, Siri
Tasks will enable ChatGPT users to request tasks to be performed at a future time, including one-time reminders or recurring ...
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Easier said than done.
Amazon is still hard at work in its efforts to realize an AI-powered Alexa digital assistant. "Hallucinations have to be close to zero," Prasad told the FT. The issue? That's far easier said than ...