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Not really. Amazon has already started working on "generalizable intelligence" [0] for Alexa inspired by GPT-3 (as they say so themselves) and released to produ
by ignoramous 4y ago
Not really. Amazon has already started working on "generalizable intelligence" [0] for Alexa inspired by GPT-3 (as they say so themselves) and released to production at least one model (viz Alexa Teacher Model) based on that effort: https://archive.is/gItZq https://archive.is/gItZq / https://www.amazon.science/blog/scaling-multilingual-virtual-assistants-to-1-000-languages https://www.amazon.science/blog/scaling-multilingual-virtual...
[0] https://archive.is/UlCpM https://archive.is/UlCpM / https://www.amazon.science/blog/alexas-head-scientist-on-conversational-exploration-ambient-ai https://www.amazon.science/blog/alexas-head-scientist-on-con...
- Karunamon 4y agoWorth mentioning that article is from last June, but in December Amazon laid off 10,000 people, most of which were in the Alexa division. https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/12/06/amazon-stock-news-amazon-alexa-layoffs-jeff-bezos-updates/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/12/06/amazon-stock-new...
- jldugger 4y ago> in December Amazon laid off 10,000 people, most of which were in the Alexa division Maybe the new tech worked _really well_.