“I test my own technology – with all of them being called Alexa, I see which one is waking up and whether it is the right device,” says the chief scientist of the AI division responsible for the tech.
That’s a lot of Alexa. But, it seems, still not enough.
In a one-on-one interview with the BBC, Mr Prasad discussed plans for Alexa to both become smarter and to follow users wherever they go. This is known in the trade as ubiquitous ambient computing, and Amazon hopes to corner the market.
In the US, it already sells an Echo system that plays Alexa through a car’s speakers. And Mr Prasad says he also wants the virtual assistant to accompany users as they walk about too.
To achieve this, he explains, the tech needs to get better at contextual reasoning.
“If you are in a store and you say, ‘Where are the tomatoes?’ it will need to have the context,” he says.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50392077
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