Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+ has improved smart home controls and conversation abilities, but the Alexa app is still buggy.

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Amazon's huge voice assistant upgrade is conversational, connected and well-suited for Prime users. I enjoy it, but still ...

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 done ...

I used to work in Alexa and I just don't see it being converted to an LLM solution for responses at all. A core problem is that user expectation is that responses are quite reliable outside of general ...

The convenience of having a voice-prompted assistant can't be understated. Whether you have and iPhone and engage with Siri or an Android equipped with Google Assistant that help with anything from ...

Mihail Eric claims Amazon missed its chance to become a conversational AI leader with Alexa due to technical and bureaucratic issues in the company.

After more than ten years, Alexa is finally getting a much-needed upgrade. Alexa+ promises to make Alexa much smarter, thanks to the power of AI. However, even with Alexa getting smarter, there are ...

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As Amazon.com Inc. trumpets its hosted IT infrastructure services, the Web site of its Alexa Internet division, responsible for some of the company’s best known Web services for developers, has been ...

Apple and Amazon are two of the biggest players in home voice assistants (hardware and software). Both have struggled for years to develop a (arguable) compelling voice product. Each is taking a very ...