Amazon’s New Alexa AI Sounds Like a Dystopian Nightmare

In the era of artificial intelligence boom, everything appears to have a shift. The program is completely completely completely renewed completely good products, from exercise applications to creative software such as Adobe Photoshop to search engines such as Google- unless you are completely unwanted from the Internet, things can be almost not avoided.

So it should not be surprising that the brain behind Amazon’s Alexa also embraces it.

Now 11 years old, the comprehensive living room assistant gets a new upgrade in the form of “Alexa+”, a mixture of monitoring classic data of Alexa with the hallucinogenic force of the Public Prosecution.

On a new episode of New York Times “Hard FORK”, technology journalist Kevin Rose and Casey Newton discussed Dystopian changes on Alexa platform and trying them after using the new service for a few days. Although Amazon started Alexa+ Flow in May, it is going very slowly, as it struck a million users on June 23.

To start, both technicians note that they have been used long ago from the Alexa platform, which were accessed through Echo from Amazon, and the tools that are always activated and have a history of concerns about advertising and invasive privacy.

“I had no good experience with this thing,” says Newton, who was running the virtual assistant from the new Echo Show 5 – a solution to reach Alexa+ immediately, in exchange for waiting for the update to the current echo tools. “Basically, what I understood is that the echo is a device that constantly invites you to spend money with Amazon. I found it frankly anger because I connected this thing.”

Newton said that the device was simply began, foam and flashing from its choice on the inactivity screen. “I would like to say for four seconds in the minute, it will show me some of the Renaissance masterpiece or something of this,” Newton said. “Then it will be like, do you want aspirin? Do you want paper towels? Do you want to buy paper towels? You can already buy paper towels at the present time. Just say, Alexa, buy paper towels.”

“This was forever,” Newton continued, “so I finally opened the thing because I was like, why did I spend only $ 90 to get a permanent dizziness for home products on my office?”

Although the duo noticed some improvements, such as Alexa’s natural synthesis and the most smooth interaction with profitable applications such as OpenTable and Uber, note that the update seems to have broken pre -useful functions, such as web browsing, alarm control, and summary news.

If users are not sure than they should use the new Alexa+, it comes in advance with suggestions. Of course, this is basically just more ads, as technology auditors have discovered.

“It is like” Ask, what I can do. “So I asked that. And one of the things he said, I could help you explore the music trends in Gen Z … so I was like, yes, definitely. Why not help me explore Gen Z Music Trends? “

“Then he goes, well, I found some podcasts around her on Amazon Music.” “And I was like, I assumed that you either tell me something about Gen Z Music or you’ll play Gen Z. But you are now trying to sell Amazon music, which I feel very consistent with how to treat Alexa+ everything, which can sell you a service now? Can we sell a product for you?”

Although Amazon has not issued a lot of information about “AI” behind the Great powers of Alexa+Dewy – the podcast hosts expect a mixture of Amazon and Claud’s artificial intelligence models – it is clear that basic technology features are not ready for great time.

This makes it more interesting that Alexa+ has no problem in burying users in a flood of ads. In this light, the e-commerce giant’s decision to fill the unpopular platform for users, such as a clear monetary seizure, appears more than the improvement of the quality of life-a model step for Amazon Tech Giants colleagues.

The new Amazon approach in internal sales coincides with wild recovery to Alexa privacy policies. In March, it was reported that Alexa+ no longer adheres to preparing “not sending audio recordings” to Alexa, which effectively allows storing its user’s voice data on its servers indefinitely.

Whether the new Alexa+trade is worthy of consumers that consumers have decided. For Newton anyway, “the echo family of devices that are only small windows allows you to send money to Amazon.com, they are not for me.”

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