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 recent {hardware}, software program, and providers. The corporate reserved the spot at middle stage for Alexa, the voice assistant powering all of Amazon’s good house 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 turning 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.
Present Notes
Learn Will’s report on Alexa’s latest upgrade. Learn our roundup of everything Amazon announced at Wednesday’s media occasion.
Suggestions
Will recommends Auto-GPT, a device that turns ChatGPT an autonomous agent that manages all of the boring components of your life. Mike recommends the e book 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 Powerful talks about faculty within the US and the way forward for greater training.
Will Knight may be discovered on Twitter @willknight. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the primary hotline at @GadgetLab. The present is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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