Amazon Leader Says Next-Gen AI Alexa Is a “Super Agent”

Head on has OUR on demand library has see sessions Since V.B. Transform 2023. Register Here

In A interview with BusinessBeat following yesterday's Amazon announcement presentation THE new big language model (LLM) feed It is Alexa device, THE the company generative AI chief, Rohit Prasad, said Alexa East NOW A "great agent. »

Alexa's LLM East NOW integrated with "thousands And thousands" of devices And services, said Prasad, WHO joined Amazon In 2014 as director of machine learning on Alexa And NOW East Senior Vice President And chief scientist, artificial general intelligence. He said BusinessBeat has Amazon new second Headquarter In Arlington, Virginia that THE model connects has THE the biggest together of Apis he could think of. That means that NOW Alexa East "based" In real time awareness that East useful And connected directly has users, he explained.

Amazon new Alexa as 'important' as THE original

However Amazon has has been functioning with AI In Alexa And It is other devices For years, THE beginning of What he called A "massive" state of THE art big language model, built with A decoder only architecture, feels "as important as When We brought Alexa has life THE First of all time [In 2014] ", he said. But, he reiterated What Amazon devices chief Dave Soft said has THE announcement event: "OUR North Star has has been THE even, We to want that staff AI that can that You can interact with, naturally, that can TO DO Nothing on your name. »

He underlines that while THE excitement around generative AI East "great — You to want This kind of excitement In AI » — Amazon road has of conversation dominance East enough different that chatbots as OpenAI ChatGPT Or Anthropic Claude.

Event

V.B. Transform 2023 On demand

Did You miss A session Since V.B. Transform 2023? Register has to access THE on demand library For all of OUR Featured sessions.

Register NOW

"We are not A chatbot In A Navigator. You are interact with …It is In fact TO DO very useful things In THE real world. There is utility For creativity For reflection on THE desktop computer And THE Navigator, but It is not [OUR] path. »

THE multimodal, multilingual And multifaceted model East "East extremely complex," he said, combining computer vision, natural language treatment And model acknowledgement. Again, he added, he East THE "complex be do simple" For users And developers.

Amazon Alexa has has been critical In recent years For A general lack of utility — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella would have said In March that Alexa And It is AI assistant ilk were "all silly as A rock." And In recent month Prasad has has been strength has defend accusations that Amazon had lack out on THE generative AI boom.

"I refute THE comment that [Alexa was] silly," said Prasad. "We to have hundreds of millions of clients using he, more that half A billion devices to have has been sold And interaction with Alexa to have grown up by 30 %. » As A technologist WHO "knows THE Gut of THE big language models," he said that there East A big difference between tools as Cha...