Previously scheduled to launch in October 2024New version of Alexa digital assistant serviceHowever, the launch of the new Alexa digital assistant has been postponed to 2025 due to the fact that the large-scale natural language processing behind it is still not ideal and cannot even achieve the basic operations that the old version of the Alexa digital assistant service can complete. However, earlier news from the Financial Times shows that Amazon still needs to overcome some technical hurdles before the new version of the Alexa digital assistant service can be successfully launched.
The so-called technical obstacles seem to be related to the long-standing "hallucinations" of artificial intelligence, which means that the new version of Alexa digital assistant service may still give wrong answers or speak nonsense, which means that it is still not ideal to become a paid product.
Amazon's current goal is to reduce the probability of "hallucinations" to near zero. After all, users may use the Alexa digital assistant service 24/7. If the "hallucination" problem cannot be solved, the service will still not be able to enter the market for use. In addition, the response speed and latency issues of the new version of the Alexa digital assistant service must be improved to make users more willing to interact with the Alexa digital assistant service.
Rohit Prasad, Amazon's head of general artificial intelligence, said it's possible to underestimate the scale of application projects integrated behind the Alexa digital assistant service, so it's necessary to ensure that the new version of the service is compatible with many third-party application services, but shortening this last mile is quite difficult.
Amazon is investing in artificial intelligence companies behind the new Alexa digital assistant service.anthropicClaude model, and also includes the one announced by Amazon at the end of last yearAmazon Nova model, and will be available on a subscription basis (said to be priced at $5-10 per month), but there is still no specific launch schedule.
