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Amazon lost a ton of money with the Alexa effort. They hoped people will use Alexa to order stuff on Amazon, which did not realize. A few months ago the Alexa d
by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Amazon lost a ton of money with the Alexa effort. They hoped people will use Alexa to order stuff on Amazon, which did not realize. A few months ago the Alexa department was downsized. With the huge progress in chat bots that ChatGPT demonstrated Alexa's future in uncertain.
- swatcoder 4y agoSo Amazon writes a big check to Microsoft and has ChatGPT integration in all the stupid little pucks that Microsoft that doesn't have. Or writes a big check to Google. Or writes a big check for AI researcher payroll and reserves some AWS oomph to train their own LLM. They're not the ones earning buzz this week, but they're actually very well positioned.
- Idiot_in_Vain 4y agoPositioned for what? Alexa is not making money for Amazon, how is writing a big check going to help?
- josefresco 4y ago> Amazon lost a ton of money with the Alexa effort. As did everyone else! I got both my Google Nest devices for basically free. My point was that they laid the groundwork, they have a customer base and while unprofitable this might be the "silver lining" if they can figure out how to charge for it.