Personal assistants came to flood our homes, either as a real and useful tool or due to the urgent need to be up to date in terms of technological innovation. Be that as it may, the truth is that Alexa had a success in the market years ago, a triumph that now seems to be being questioned.
When they hit the market, voice assistants seemed to be the panacea of technology, a tool that hadn’t been seen until then and that was here to make our lives much easier. These devices represented the future, allowing us to carry out activities such as listening to music, giving us information, personal consultations or controlling electronic devices. But what else?
Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant… they all seem to have been put on the back burner waiting for it to do so much more for us. The lack of evolution led them to be enveloped by an aura of uncertainty. Faced with this effect, companies like Google decided to act and go one step further, others like Amazon have now started the project of improving their Alexa assistant thanks to artificial intelligence.
Alexa will have ChatGPT functions
The situation of these voice assistants changed radically the day the launch of ChatGPT became official.and it is that both Google and Amazon were spectators of what it would offer the technological market and therefore, how it would harm their intelligent systems.
Indeed, the data indicates that Alexa would have had losses of 10,000 million dollars in the past yearwhich together with the layoff process that the corporation is experiencing, would have made it decide to bet on progress.
Google decided to act accordingly by launching Bard on the market and being an alternative to ChatGPT, but what has Amazon done? Now it is the turn of the US e-commerce and cloud services company, which is already working on make Alexa a much more complete assistant and with generative artificial intelligence functions.
As revealed by a recent Insider report, there is a document leaked under the title of Alexa LLM, entertainment use cases. As detailed in this document, Amazon’s future plans to turn Alexa into a thinking tool and not just a base to search for data are exposed, thus explaining everything that the new assistant could achieve.
With these changes that the company is preparing, Alexa will be much smarter and much more prepared, giving the feeling that she is really thinking and not just offering a series of data. Such is the case, that the company is in the setting up new features such as video and audio search, personal recommendations or the ability to tell stories.
To this end, Amazon has developed its own language model, the Alexa Teacher Model. With the addition of artificial intelligence, the company’s personal assistant will now be more proactive, more useful and professional, and above all, more human, as specified by the company itself. Alexa will be able to understand more complex questions and take context into account when offering an answer.
Now what remains to be known is when this new improved version of Alexa will arrive, which will allow us to obtain synopses of recommended series and that the Echo Show offers us its trailer. Its arrival will be sooner rather than later, or so the company claims at least, and it is that according to what has been known, Amazon handles interesting opportunities to obtain extra income with Alexaincluding potential alliances with Disney, Lego or other companies to promote their products and content.
