Rohit Prasad, VP and head scientist for Alexa, explains Alexa's new “Why did you do that?” feature which gives users the reason for why it took a certain action
In an interview with OneZero, Amazon's chief Alexa scientist explains the voice assistant's complicated new feature
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Discussion
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@roughtradex
Roman
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Alexa: “I'm sorry, Dave, I can't tell you that.” https://twitter.com/...
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@medium
@medium
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Has your Alexa ever woken up for reasons that aren't immediately clear? @ozm sat down with Amazon's chief Alexa scientist Rohit Prasad to talk about that very phenomenon — and what they're doing to address it. http://read.medium.com/6MQeXGZ
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@levie
Aaron Levie
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Siri will soon offer Samuel L. Jackson's voice... Me: Siri, what's the weather? Siri: What country are you from? Me: What? What? Siri: What ain't no country I've ever heard of. They speak English in What? Me: What? Siri: English, motherf—er, do you speak it?
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@max_read
Max Read
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the predicted future: deepfake audio will be used to destroy public trust and empower authoritarians the actual future: deepfake audio will be used to make samuel l jackson yell at you until you order shampoo again https://twitter.com/...
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@willoremus
Will Oremus
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APPLE: We put an extra lens in the iPhone camera and our watch now stays on AMAZON: We built smart eyeglasses, smart earbuds, a smart ring, a sidewalk that senses everything, a surveillance system for dogs, a talking doorbell, an oven, and turned Alexa into Samuel L. Jackson
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@mcwm
Mike Murphy
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damn Alexa is soon going to be a narc the Alexa Education Skill API will tie into things like Coursera to allow parents to ask what homework their kid has that night, or how they did on tests (!!!!) https://twitter.com/...
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@mcwm
Mike Murphy
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Alexa will apparently realize now when you're frustrated with her answers when she gets something wrong she says “I must have misheard” seems like a bad precedent to set for dudes to yell at a female voice pic.twitter.com/N7XuhOpcpp
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@ow
Owen Williams
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Alexa, we forgot to add privacy features so now we're hackin 'em in https://twitter.com/...
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@benthompson
Ben Thompson
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@ow @TechmemeChatter Actually I would argue that Alexa has had the most transparent approach to privacy all along. It has always been easy to find and delete transcripts or adjust settings, and Amazon has never hid what they were doing.