- Alexa+ AI of Amazon has just reached 100,000 users in the United States
- However, the firm’s CEO has warned that agent technology remains “primitive”
- Alexa+ is being implemented in waves, but some key features are still missing
Like many other signatures of great technology, Amazon climbed into the artificial intelligence car (AI) by launching its own assistant of the called Alexa+ in February. Now, the company has announced that the tool has been implemented to 100,000 users.
At this time, Alexa+ focuses on providing a conversation experience with an AI chatbot, although Amazon aims to imbute him with “agents” skills in the future. That would allow it to work as an agent in his name, interacting with third -party applications to carry out the tasks he asks for.
That little data came from the Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, during the recent company’s profit call. There, Jassy explained that “our intention is that the agents perform complex and complex tasks of several steps”, and that “there have been no action -oriented agents like this until Alexa+”.
However, Alexa +’s most recent update+ lacks some of the key features that Amazon demonstrated in February, as the Washington Post pointed out. It would not be the first to arrive without promised skills: the Siri of Apple has faced numerous delays and interruptions, and shows how difficult it can be to advance in the arms race of the current.
Even Jassy admitted that Alexa+ faced challenges. In general, agent AI tools are still “primitive,” said the Amazon CEO, with Aizon’s own AI Nova AI model with the aim of improving its accuracy of only 30% to 60%. Eventually, the objective is to achieve more than 90% precision, but clearly Alexa+ is not yet there.
Limited availability
Amazon has previously declared that aiming Alexa+ in waves, so we must expect to see an increase in availability in the US. In the coming months. There is still no news about an international deployment.
Of the users who have tried it so far, few have shared their thoughts or have given information about how well it works. However, that changed recently when the User Pretty2be took Reddit to answer questions in the AI chatbot.
During the session, Pretty2be declared that Alexa+ is good to interpret natural discourse and can avoid interrupting it. Other positive comments included their speech synthesis capabilities, although the user criticized his tendency to push him towards Amazon’s music, even when he tries to use Spotify.
We do not know when Alexa+ will be launched to more users, but it is clear that there is still a job to do, judging by Pretty2be comments and the comments of the Amazon Jassy CEO. Hopefully the missing features arrive before the next 100,000 users register.
