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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 fyngyrz on Monday July 31 2017, @04:44AM (1 child)
That's very interesting. I wonder if Google Home can do this as well.
I don't give it a thought – have not up till now, anyway – because Google doesn't offer what the Echo does. Amazon's connection to its product and media offerings is a heck of a come-on, not to mention the large ecosystem of Echo-friendly devices.
Also - while Amazon has never directly screwed me personally, Google has. So they're not on the top of my "hey, let's try that" list.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Monday July 31 2017, @07:06AM
Google has it's drawbacks and limitations, for sure. But it does indicate where the state of the art is now.
I find it surprising the feature goes practically unmentioned in Android advertising. Especially when every other commercial was for Siri.