Amazon Unveils New Gadgets as AI Race Heats Up
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Amazon.com Inc. introduced an updated slate of Echo devices and pledged to bring ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence to Alexa-powered gadgets.For more than a year the digital assistant has been using a home-built set of large language models — the foundational networks that enable ChatGPT and rival technologies — to help summarize text gathered from the web and make Alexa more conversant in various languages, Dave Limp, Amazon's senior vice president of Devices & Services, said in an interview. New, more conversational capabilities will “roll out incrementally,” he said. “It's not years away, but there are some things that we have to solve.” Amazon on Wednesday announced four updated Alexa devices:The Echo Pop, which takes the company's spherical, fabric-covered Echo Dot sm...