Citing a doc, a report by Business Insider (through The Verge) stated that Amazon will depend on an indigenously developed LLM that can energy a more moderen and extra succesful Alexa.

Amazon calls its LLM Alexa Teacher Model however an organization spokesperson echoed Jassy’s feedback saying that Amazon is constructing bigger “more generalised and capable” LLMs to make Alexa “more proactive and conversational.”

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The spokesperson additionally stated that Alexa has been utilizing the Teacher mannequin for a number of years.

Alexa to be extra conversational

Amazon reportedly needs Alexa to suppose as a substitute of “fetching from a database.” In one part of the doc, titled “Alexa LLM Entertainment Use Cases”, it’s steered that the brand new AI system will assist Alexa make media suggestions, information supply, and storytelling extra conversational.

There’s an instance within the doc in accordance with which, if a person asks, “Alexa, find that HBO or Netflix show where rich people go on vacation to Sicily or Hawaii”, Alexa figures out that the present is ‘The White Lotus’. If a person asks what the solid is, Alexa responds with the identify of the solid.

In an instance associated to FireTV, when a person asks Alexa in regards to the HBO subscription value after the trial, Alexa tells the worth and even asks if the person needs to subscribe (by means of Amazon’s Prime Video Channels).