Amazon’s upgraded digital assistant powered by Generic AI, Alexa+, has been released to more than 100,000 users, Managing Director Andy Jassy said on the company’s profits on Thursday.
While this is far from the 600 million Alexa devices out there, the company is making some progress in the development of Alexa+, which was first introduced in February. At that time, Amazon said that Alexa+ would be released in waves in the coming months.
Amazon’s new digital assistant aims to allow users to talk to him in a more natural style and ultimately have practical abilities that allow him to use third -party applications on behalf of the user. Alexa+ should be able to create original answers on the go, as well as voice modes in Openai’s chatgpt and Google’s Gemini, rather than the predetermined answers of old ALEXA and Siri systems.
However, as the Washington Post said in the launch, Alexa+ today released Does not have some of the key features of the company submitted in February. The report points out that, during launch, Alexa+ was not able to use third -party applications such as Grubhub, create a sleeping story for children or record a gift idea. It is not clear when these features will do it in Alexa+.
“We have much more functionality that we plan to add in the coming months,” Jassy told the call.
During his initial comments, Jassy claimed that Alexa+ is one of the first agents for consumers. But he noted that this technology is still rather “primitive” and “inaccurate”. Currently, most multi -step AI agents have a low accuracy rate of between 30% and 60%, Amazon’s chief executive said. Jassy set a target for the browser on the web of the company authorizing Alexa+, Nova Act, to achieve a accuracy of 90% in this area.
The development of Amazon of Alexa+ seems to be moving faster than the development of Apple than its new Siri powered by LLM. When asked about the new Siri delays in Apple’s profit call on Thursday, which happened at the same time as Amazon, Managing Director Tim Cook said the company needed “More time to complete work. ”
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Along the road to overloading Legacy’s digital assistants, both Apple and Amazon have allegedly running in snags and delays. Some of the largest hiccups are around LLMS to use tools and integrate with other systems. In this way it allows Alexa and Siri to complete practical tasks such as timers and reading texts, but its application has proven to be tougher than expected.
