Mariella Moon has been a night editor for Engadget since 2013, covering everything from consumer technology and video games to strange little robots that could operate on the human body from the inside one day. She has a special affinity for space, its technologies and its mysteries, though, and has interviewed astronauts for Engadget.
Amazon had been planning to roll out a new Alexa powered by generative AI in October 2024, but that obviously didn't happen. According to reports that came out back then, the companysays the company still needs to be able to overcome "several technical hurdles" before it can launch a more powerful version of Alexa . One of the main problems it has to solve is "hallucinations," which are incorrect or false results that generative AIs produce at times.
Hallucinations have to be "close to zero," Rohit Prasad, leader of Amazon's artificial general intelligence team told. Since people tend to use Alexa throughout the day, it could end up spitting out a lot of false information if Amazon fails to address the issue. Prasad admits that hallucinations are "still an open problem in the industry," but his team is "working extremely hard on it.
The Amazon AGI lead said that getting Alexa to that last mile has been really hard. "Sometimes we underestimate how many services are integrated into Alexa, and it’s a massive number," he told. His team has to ensure that the new assistant will be able to work with hundreds of third-party apps and services. The new Alexa is expected to be powered byand the company's in-house Amazon Nova models, and it will reportedly require a subscription as a way for the company to make money.
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