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Amazon Debuts Alexa+ Generative AI
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No one has answered the question of will it work on older devices. If this is processed in the cloud, I could see it coming to older devices. I have OneLink Safe & Sound Alarms that could get this updated Alexa if so.
Obviously this is a ploy to get prime users hooked on the service and hike up the price later, just like they did for prime music and prime video.
Wow, good catch. This probably means that they'll eventually charge Prime members extra for it - get 'em hooked on the drug - or Prime membership is going to get more expensive soon.
Really ? You asked everyone? That must have taken awhile. Get some rest
AI and voice assistants won't have anything to do with a Apple succeeding or failing.
I can see family battles over that:
"I'm cold." "Well, I'm too hot!" "Well, I'm just right."
Alexa: "Please just tell me what to do."
You won't have to ask it to do that--it'll do it anywayAlexa, please track and monetize my life even more than before...
I guess we still sometimes need to use exactly the right magic words to get our devices to do the right thing. In the Harry Potter world, you even have to pronounce your incantations exactly right or else who knows what you'll get. Arthur C. Clarke said “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", but I wonder if he was considering the need for proper pronunciation, word choice, and sentence structure to achieve that magic, something that a decent AI is supposed to not need.I just want Alexa to get smarter about my music preferences and what I have asked for previously so I don't have to argue with her every time I want to play a song.
🤖 Playing "Top of the world" by Mandy Moore.
🤖 Playing "Top of the world" by Mandy Moore.
🤖 I'm sorry, I can't find "Top of the world featuring Fenja"
🤖 Playing "Top of the world featuring Fenja Radio Edit" by Andy Moor on Apple Music.
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And Siri still can't answer some basic questions, yet I can have a full-blown conversation with ChatGPT and now Alexa if they work as well.
Come on Apple, you're falling way behind and it's embarrassing at this point.
Come on Apple, you're falling way behind and it's embarrassing at this point.
Definitely looking forward to trying it out. Think for sure it will be much better than Siri. As for the pricing, it makes sense to get access to it only via a Prime membership.
I only use mine to turn lights on and off, and other smart stuff, maybe ask the odd question and listen to music or radio, I don't really want a conversation with a machine
I expect at some point it will be available on all Echo devices, I suppose it is just like a soft launch to test. Also, will be available in other countries. Not that I am in any rush,
No it isn't. Would you like to quote where Nokia said anything about AI?
I'm not saying that Apple couldn't find fall behind in the marketplace, because they absolutely could. I'm saying AI won't be the cause, or a major factor, because it's not that important.
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I think's there is a good chance that it will cost extra down the line even for Prime members, but another possibility will be that they will differentiate Alexa+ into tiers and you can upgrade to a higher tier that does more, similar to how Apple Intelligence is free using ChatGPT at one level but some features require a paid subscription.
I think the difference will be that since Amazon is already making money off of us Prime members, a hypothetical upgraded tier would be far less than a full subscription fee on the order of other premium LLM services.
