Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June–unless internal conflict delays revamp

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Post by theslurmmustflo » Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 1:07 AM UTC

Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June–unless internal conflict delays revamp
arstechnica.com

Re: Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June–unless internal conflict delays revamp

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Post by cookingmyserver » Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 2:25 AM UTC

Somewhat misleading headline. They plan to release a paid version of Alexa AKA Alexa Plus using generative AI, but testing didn't go well and they are trying to rebuild it using LLM tech from the bottom up.

Re: Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June–unless internal conflict delays revamp

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Post by nunez » Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 1:37 PM UTC

It's kind of crap that Alexa is asking for money for functionality it should have provided from day one (being able to interpret requests with >90% accuracy)

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Post by nothercastle » Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 4:39 PM UTC

I think that’s how they kill prime video and Alexa. Ask people to pay when nobody does kill it

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Post by amznburn » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 1:50 AM UTC

cookingmyserver wrote: post #2

Somewhat misleading headline. They plan to release a paid version of Alexa AKA Alexa Plus using generative AI, but testing didn't go well and they are trying to rebuild it using LLM tech from the bottom up.

Thanks to all those scientists from Alexa Entertainment, who have successfully broken all iterations of Alexa. 3 for 3! Great job!