Amazon’s Alexa gets a new brain on Echo, becomes smarter via AI and aims for ambience
Amazon is making Alexa smarter with natural turn-taking, having conversations with multiple people, natural language understanding, and the ability to be taught by customers. The first target is the smart home, but Alexa for Business is also likely to follow.
Features such as Reading Sidekick, designed to help kids read, and conversational improvements are aimed at making Alexa more of a family member without as many "Alexa" words.
Rohit Prasad, vice president and head scientist for Alexa Artificial Intelligence at Amazon, outlined the following capabilities:
- Alexa can take interaction cues and note errors and then connect them.
- Learn from humans by asking to follow up questions when Alexa has a gap in knowledge about returns and learned modes.
- Deep learning space parsers to understand gaps and extract new concepts.
- More natural conversation and adaptation.
- Follow-up mode when interacting with humans.
CHASING THE AMBIENT DREAM STARTING WITH THE HOME
Limp's talk outlined the new Echo devices and Echo Show 10, but the overall theme was that these devices can follow you around the room as a person would.
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