Alexa was due for an improve, and now it has gotten one. This week, Amazon held its annual media occasion the place it debuted a slate of latest {hardware}, software program, and companies. The firm reserved the spot at middle stage for Alexa, the voice assistant powering all of Amazon’s sensible dwelling ambitions. Researchers on the firm have given Alexa a technological improve that allows it to be extra aggressive within the ChatGPT period. Alexa can now communicate extra naturally, maintain a dialog with out as many awkward interactions, and even make its responses sound extra emotionally nuanced.
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior author Will Knight joins us to speak about how Alexa is changing into extra agile as a conversationalist. Will spoke to Amazon executives about their machine intelligence work, their coaching fashions, and the way the corporate is driving the wave of pleasure round generative synthetic intelligence.
Show Notes
Read Will’s report on Alexa’s latest upgrade. Read our roundup of everything Amazon announced at Wednesday’s media occasion.
Recommendations
Will recommends Auto-GPT, a device that turns ChatGPT an autonomous agent that manages all of the boring elements of your life. Mike recommends the guide No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy. Lauren recommends the episode of WIRED’s Have a Nice Future Podcast the place journalist Paul Tough talks about faculty within the US and the way forward for larger schooling.
Will Knight may be discovered on Twitter @willknight. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the principle hotline at @GadgetLab. The present is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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