{"id":28859,"date":"2025-02-16T12:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T04:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=28859"},"modified":"2025-02-16T12:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T04:33:49","slug":"%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af%e7%a7%b0%e5%9b%a0-ai-%e5%9b%9e%e7%ad%94%e4%b8%8d%e9%9d%a0%e8%b0%b1%ef%bc%8c%e4%ba%9a%e9%a9%ac%e9%80%8a-alexa-%e5%8d%87%e7%ba%a7%e7%89%88%e5%b0%86%e6%8e%a8%e8%bf%9f%e4%b8%8a%e7%ba%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/28859.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Alexa upgrade delayed due to unreliable AI answers, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- According to the Washington Post, the<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>plans to showcase its upgraded AI-based technology at the Feb. 26 event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/alexa\" title=\"[Sees articles with [Alexa] label]\" target=\"_blank\" >Alexa<\/a>, but that upgrade isn't expected to officially launch until at least March 31 or later. One of the reasons for this delay is that the<strong>Upgraded Alexa has problems giving inaccurate answers in tests<\/strong>. An anonymous Amazon employee revealed that the launch of the upgrade had to be delayed due to these issues.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28860\" title=\"f3d712c4j00srrdzh000id000rn00ehp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/f3d712c4j00srrdzh000id000rn00ehp.jpg\" alt=\"f3d712c4j00srrdzh000id000rn00ehp\" width=\"995\" height=\"521\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to internal documents and sources cited by The Washington Post, the upgraded version of Alexa was originally planned to launch later this month as a free trial, and may be tied to a subscription service. New features include the ability to \"show specific personality traits, remember conversations, and order takeout or cabs. However, the program has been delayed due to problems revealed during testing.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2023, Amazon said it would \"energize\" Alexa with generative AI technology, and expected the process to be completed in a matter of months. But as of now, that plan has yet to materialize. The upgrade was reportedly scheduled to launch in late 2024, but was delayed due to feedback from beta users that it was slow to respond, hard to answer, and not practical enough.<\/p>\n<p>1<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [AI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a>Note that Apple has also been rumored to have a possible issue with its AI upgrade for Siri. As Bloomberg reported yesterday, the Siri upgrade, which was originally expected to launch in iOS version 18.4, may be delayed until iOS version 18.5, which may not be available until May at the earliest.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon plans to show off an upgraded version of its artificial intelligence technology-based Alexa at an event on Feb. 26, but the upgrade isn't expected to officially launch until at least March 31 or later, according to the Washington Post. One of the reasons for this delay is that the upgraded Alexa had problems giving inaccurate answers in tests. An anonymous Amazon employee revealed that the launch of the upgrade had to be delayed due to these issues. According to internal documents and sources cited by The Washington Post, the upgraded version of Alexa was originally planned to be launched later this month as a free trial, and may be tied to a subscription service. New features include the ability to \"show specific personality traits, memorize conversations, order takeout, or call in an appointment.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[411,3702,370],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-28859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-alexa","tag-370"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28859","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=28859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28859"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=28859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}