Amazon Alexa, a voice assistant is undergoing some major changes to become more interactive. The new AI ChatGPT (Generative Pre-Training) like features allow users to ask and interact with Alexa. For instance, an eight-year-old can ask Alexa to create bedtime stories about cats and the moon and it can come up with a creative narrative to tell the young kid related to the cat and the moon. This feature is also used in other applications like Google’s “Bard” or OpenAI’s “ChatGPT”. The voice assistant is powered by a ‘Large Language Model’ (LLM) internally designed by Amazon which it refers to as the Alexa Teacher Model. The company is reportedly working on bigger and more advanced versions of the model to make Alexa “more proactive and conversational”. Other than this Amazon is considering partnership ventures with companies like Disney, Lego and other brands too.
Amazon is a multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington. It focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Its products and services include Amazon Prime, Kindle, Alexa, AWS, and Amazon Go. Additionally, the company operates physical retail stores, grocery delivery services, and more. It is the largest provider of cloud infrastructure services and one of the most valuable companies in the world.
The person mentioned in this article is a company representative, who spoke to an online media outlet, “Insider”. The representative told that the company is developing bigger, “more generalized and capable” versions of the Alexa Teacher Model to make it “more proactive and conversational”.
