Amazon's plan to launch a paid version of Alexa faces technical issues and internal politics.
Amazon is revamping its Alexa voice assistant as it prepares to launch a new paid subscription plan this year, according to internal documents and people familiar with the matter. But the change is causing internal conflict and may lead to further delay.
Tentatively called “Alexa Plus,” the paid version of Alexa is intended to offer more conversational and personalized AI technology, said one of the documents obtained by Business Insider.
But the quality of the new Alexa’s answers is still falling short of expectations, often sharing inaccurate information, external tests have found.
Do they really expect people will pay for a large language model making up results on-the-fly?
“If this fails to get revenue, Alexa is in trouble,” one of the people told BI.
I will not shed a tear when Alexa gets shut off, to be honest.
Microsoft is expecting people to pay $20 US per user per month for their Copilot assistant in Windows. They’re all going to crank up the prices for this dubious service.
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Do they really expect people will pay for a large language model making up results on-the-fly?
I will not shed a tear when Alexa gets shut off, to be honest.
Considering you can put your own on a raspberry pi for free and run it locally, there isn’t much reason for Alexa anymore anyway
You have a good project you like for that?
Rhasspy. Takes a bit of setup, it’s not as plug and play.
I got it. “Alexa, you owe me rent for being in my home. Alexa, send me 1500 a month in local currency.”
Somewhere, a Jeff Bezos explodes.
Nice!👍
Microsoft is expecting people to pay $20 US per user per month for their Copilot assistant in Windows. They’re all going to crank up the prices for this dubious service.
Maybe one day all the human Alexas can have their name back. That would be nice.