TechAIAmazon Alexa could get an AI upgrade - but it’ll cost youAmazon is adding AI to Alexa to make it more useful, but you’ll need to sign up for a subscriptionWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechAIAmazon Alexa could get an AI upgrade - but it’ll cost youAmazon is adding AI to Alexa to make it more useful, but you’ll need to sign up for a subscriptionWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Amazon is adding AI to Alexa to make it more useful, but you’ll need to sign up for a subscription
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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Quick summaryAmazon is focusing on adding AI features to Alexa, its smart speakers' digital assistant. The features will be subscription-based but there’s no release date as yet.
Amazon is focusing on adding AI features to Alexa, its smart speakers' digital assistant. The features will be subscription-based but there’s no release date as yet.
Amazon is focusing on adding AI features to Alexa, its smart speakers' digital assistant. The features will be subscription-based but there’s no release date as yet.
Amazon is focusing on adding AI features to Alexa, its smart speakers' digital assistant. The features will be subscription-based but there’s no release date as yet.
Apple isn’t the only tech giant investing in AI:Amazon’s been spending big bucks on it too, and a new report says that it’s coming toAlexa. Amazon has reportedly urged developers to make a product that’s up there with ChatGPT and similar systems, and likeAppleit wants to add AI smarts to its personal digital assistant – Alexa, its Siri rival.
That’s the good news. The bad is that it’ll probably cost you.
What’s Amazon up to with AI?
CNBC’s sources don’t know exactly how that’s going to work, but they do know that Amazon has been doing some extensive re-organising of its Alexa team and getting them to focus squarely on AI. And they know how Amazon plans to profit from it: the firm intends to charge for it as a kind of Prime for AI. According to the report a monthly charge of $20 “was floated” but that’s since dropped to just under $10. That would make Alexa about half the price of rivals such as OpenAI.
Like Apple’s Siri, present-day Alexa isn’t exactly delivering the exciting assistant-powered lifestyle we hoped for – and while in my experience Alexa is more flexible and reliable than Apple’s offering, it still feels like its potential is a long way from being realised. A smarter Alexa could be a seriously impressive upgrade.
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