alt Hacker NewsAWS specifically have really dropped the ball on this.
I interact regularly with AWS to support our needs in MLOps and to some extent GenAI. 3 of the experts we talked to have all left for competitors in the last year.
re:Invent London this year presented nothing new of note on the GenAI front. The year before was full of promise on Bedrock.
Outside of AWS, I still can’t fathom how they haven’t integrated an AI assistant into Alexa yet either
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There's Alexa+ [0] which uses generative AI but it's planned to be a paid option at $20/mo.
[0]: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-alexa-generativ...
Having briefly interacted with AWS Q out of curiosity, I can see why they haven’t pushed much out publicly. Aside from giving someone a chuckle when they decided to call its suggestions “Q Tips”, it’s functionally useless.
Lingo question: is MLOps like devops for ML, or like flops for ML? I wonder because… actually, either case seems like somewhere Amazon might be losing experts to hot startups.
They all but abandoned Astro, their home robot. My suspicion (and information I've heard internally) all but points at them only using Astro as a testbed for self-navigating warehouse robotics, and now that they got what they wanted out of it, the Vesta team basically got thrown to the wolves.
Isn't "Alexa+" doing this? (I have not signed up)
Didnt they basically can most of Alexa a few years ago? I think they realized asking a device questions doesn’t generate profit.
They basically have with Alexa+. It's slightly more limited than ChatGPT, but it sounds much more realistic than stock Alexa and blows it out of the water in terms of smarts. The old model was basically a Siri-like "set timers and check the weather with specific commands," plus some hit-or-miss skills you had to install separately. But the new one gives much more of a sense of understanding your question and can carry on conversations with contextual responses. I've been pretty impressed with it, and the nature of the Echo device makes it much easier to query at will than having to open the ChatGPT app and switch to voice mode.