Social RoboticsAmazon launches Alexa+, rebuilding its assistant around generative AI
The revamped Alexa can hold more natural conversations, act on users' behalf and interpret what a device camera sees.
At an event in New York, Amazon unveiled Alexa+, a generative AI overhaul of its voice assistant. The new version draws on personal context, adapts to tone, can book services and reservations, understands video from a device camera and can summarise Ring footage. It marked the most significant change to Alexa since its launch and pushed conversational AI deeper into the home. For social robotics, it signalled that the voice assistants already living alongside families were becoming far more capable conversational partners, raising expectations for embodied home companions.
Source: TechCrunch
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