{"id":1320,"date":"2023-11-18T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T02:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2023-11-18T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T02:59:11","slug":"%e4%ba%9a%e9%a9%ac%e9%80%8aalexa%e9%83%a8%e9%97%a8%e9%9d%a2%e4%b8%b4%e8%a3%81%e5%91%98-%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8%e5%b0%86%e9%87%8d%e7%82%b9%e5%8f%91%e5%b1%95%e6%96%b0%e5%bd%a2%e5%bc%8fai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/1320.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#039;s Alexa division faces layoffs as the company focuses on developing new forms of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an internal memo from the company on Friday,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%ba%9a%e9%a9%ac%e9%80%8a\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Amazon]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Amazon<\/a>Hundreds of Alexa jobs will be cut as part of a broader restructuring of the company&#039;s business to focus more on developing new forms of voice assistants.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%ba%ba%e5%b7%a5%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd%e6%8a%80%e6%9c%af\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Artificial Intelligence Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The memo shows that this move is to<span class=\"spamTxt\">maximum<\/span>The layoffs will result in the elimination of hundreds of positions in the Alexa and Fire TV divisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content__img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1321\" title=\"202302031031488526_0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/202302031031488526_0.jpg\" alt=\"202302031031488526_0\" width=\"793\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amazon has previously laid off employees in several departments, including the Alexa team, and is facing pressure from the rapidly developing field of generative AI. Compared with the powerful language capabilities of OpenAI ChatGPT, Amazon lags behind its competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The company plans to enhance the dialogue capacity of voice assistants through a new Alexa function called Let's Chat. The head of Alexa department, Dave Linp, left the company in August and was replaced by former Microsoft executive Panos Panay\u3002<\/p>\n<p>Industry analysts believe that Amazon&#039;s layoffs in the Alexa department show that the company will accelerate the adjustment of its business strategy and focus on developing emerging AI technologies to cope with increasingly fierce industry competition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an internal company memorandum on Friday, the Amazon will cut hundreds of Alexa posts as part of a larger business restructuring of the company and will focus more on developing new forms of artificial intelligence technology in the future. The memorandum indicates that this is intended to maximize the use of the resources and efforts of companies in generating artificial intelligence. Retrenchment would result in the abolition of hundreds of posts in Alexa and Fire TV. Prior to this, the Amazon had reduced the number of staff in several departments, including the Alexa team, and was under pressure to develop a rapidly evolving and generating AI area. Compared to OpenAI ChatGPT ' s strong language skills, Amazon lags behind its competitors. The company plans to adopt a new Alexa called Let's Chat<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[370,205],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-370","tag-205"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}