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How much intelligence does it take to handle "Alexa, turn off the light" or "Alexa, play something by Taylor Swift"? Are people actually trusting Alexa to answer questions that require actual thought?


Before using LLMs, you had to list every single variation that someone might say to trigger a command - “utterances” in every language.

With LLMs, it’s about writing good prompts.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67be86bc-4090-8010-8017-f3048fe32d...


This isn’t what they are selling.

They are selling “Alexa play all the songs Taylor made after her breakup with xxx”


In my experience, "normies" would already trust the basic Alexa search feature way before LLMs conditioned them to do it. Something about a conversational AI seems to drive people to this, I guess.




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