How Amazon is working to make Alexa more conversational, intelligent

The rise of AI-powered chatbots, which can perform sophisticated tasks like writing text, generating images and more, have somewhat blunted the current smart digital assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant. As the technology companies race to integrate AI into their products, Amazon is also in fray to better its virtual assistant.

Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa, has said that the company is working to make Alexa more conversational and intelligent by introducing AI in it. The company hopes to make this happen by using a new version of its own large language model (LLM), called Alexa Teacher Model, so that Alexa can answer complex requests.