Many of Amazon’s devices have additional sensors, such as cameras and microphones, that can add context to generative AI queries.
Amazon has revealed that they seek to bring generative AI into households with their Alexa, the company’s proprietary voice-assistant technology, which is already using what would be considered low-levels of AI.
Last year Amazon announced that they will allow Alexa to learn the voices of deceased relatives so it can speak the same way the dead person could, The WinePress reported.
More recently, Amazon’s Alexa and Echo devices have come under scrutiny, after a customer had his smart devices deactivated without warning after his Amazon Ring doorbell captured what was first believed to be a racist remark towards an Amazon deliveryman. The customer proved that that was not true, and Amazon then quietly reinstated his accounts. Popular YouTuber Louis Rossman exposed this to his 1.85 million subscribers, which resulted in him losing his affiliate account after many years of working with them…
