Countdown for the presentation of Amazon’s new virtual assistant: in the coming weeks the launch of the updated version of Alexathat, so to speak, which will be equipped with artificial intelligence.
According to rumors collected by Reuters, in fact, the American company would be planning the event with great pomp by the end of February. As a proof of the hypothesis made by the British press agency, Amazon has in fact sent the main media and networks to attend an unspecified event to be held in New York on Wednesday February 26and in which Panos Panay will also take part, or the head of the device and services team. All these clues therefore push to think that the event is to be related to the launch of Alexa’s more “intelligent” version that everyone had been waiting for for some time, but which in reality arrives with a considerable delay compared to its competitors on the market.
What in all respects is configured as the most substantial update of the virtual assistant by Amazon of the last decade is expected not only by the millions of users who already have the electronic device but especially by the American giant, who hopes to be able to collect a beautiful sum from the sale of Alexa’s functions through his own subscription proposal to the new ones services. Considering the fact that there are about around the world 500 million devices Enabled to the services of the Amazon virtual assistant, it is easy to understand how the company awaits that it can be monitored as much as possible after its investment.
For the moment, having not been made public any preview, it is not possible to know what new features will be available for users: according to some rumors shot on the net, the “intelligent” virtual assistant will be able to respond to multiple requests simultaneously and will be able to operate as an AI agent, replacing the user to perform some specific commands that will be given to him.
As known, there are not only advantages in resorting to artificial intelligence, especially in use on
Large scale: errors, fake news, not very credible or unreal answers are often around the corner, but obviously it will be necessary to wait for the launch and the first tests to better understand what the limits of the new Alexa will be.