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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Apparently, “Remarkable Alexa” can’t reliably turn on the lights.

In another WSJ report about Amazon’s struggles to reinvent Alexa with AI, the newspaper says it’s now going backward:

In some tests, for example, it lost the ability to turn on the lights with 90%-plus reliability.

Merging the new with the old was always going to be a challenge. Amazon has now charged one of Alexa’s creators, Rohit Prasad, with solving this mess.

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