Alexa, AI, and Machine Learning
ALEXA IS THE agent in the cloud, running on the internet. Echo is the device with a multitude of microphones so it can do far-field voice recognition. From the time we started working on it in 2012, our vision was that—in the long term—it would become the Star Trek computer. You could ask it anything—ask it to do things for you, ask it to find things for you—and it would be easy to converse with in a very natural way.
Working on Alexa and Echo was very challenging from a technical point of view. There are thousands of people working on Echo and Alexa, with teams in many different locations, including Cambridge, Massachusetts; Berlin; and Seattle.
With Echo there were several different things that had to get ...
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