Amazon's range of smart speakers and their artificial intelligence assistant Alexa have proved to be a huge sales hit.
"We have thousands of engineers inside Amazon adding to [its] capability every day and then another tens of thousands of developers adding to the skills," he tells the BBC.
"The thing I am sure of is that this time next year she will be significantly more intelligent than she is now, and that sometime in the future we will hit our goal of reinventing the Star Trek computer."
It's a lofty goal, especially since any attempt to go beyond commanding a weather update or asking for the lights to be switched on is currently asking for trouble.
Try to have anything close to a normal conversation with Alexa and it tells you it doesn't understand or cannot help.
But though it may not always be obvious, the firm says rapid progress is being made.
Which will prevail, Alexa, Cortana, or Siri?
(Score: 2) by arslan on Monday July 31 2017, @03:37AM (2 children)
True. However that legion of developers is democratized. Anyone can create "apps" (called skills) for Alexa. If the rise of the app store is any good indicator, the next person that makes a bucket of gold from creating the next killer app/skill will herald another app building frenzy.
Of course like the app store, it'll end up with millions of shit apps but that is a problem for the owner to decide what "skill" their Alexa learns.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday July 31 2017, @10:42AM (1 child)
Oh boy, I can't wait. "Alexa, play a fart sound."
(Score: 2) by arslan on Tuesday August 01 2017, @10:52PM
Oh boy, I can't wait. "Alexa, play a fart sound."
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