> Expect to see a smarter AI-powered Alexa available for a subscription that gives better answers and has more skills. Umm, no. If I owned these devices (which

> Expect to see a smarter AI-powered Alexa available for a subscription that gives better answers and has more skills. Umm, no. If I owned these devices (which I don't, because it's spyware), I'd push for the ability to plug in my model of choice (e.g., Alexa, ChatGPT, BARD, my own model). Because Alexa lives in the Cloud, this should not impact the hardware I don't believe. Firmware updates can happen regardless of my voice-assistant of choice. Smaller models can be stored locally on device, or accessible via a skill. Larger models can be stored in the cloud, just like Alexa. However, I don't think that a personal voice assistant language model requires cloud. Unless of course Amazon removed the on-device memory. If they did, then that decision essentially rendered 100 million devices e-waste, as they are surveillance bricks without the "subscription service" Amazon will require owners to purchase. Yikes, what a mess.