Yesterday afternoon 2 pm I came to my room in the Learning centre
of Alliance University, Bangalore after lunch, asked Amazon AI Alexa
(the AI virtual assistant, generation 3) to play some songs
and it did. The AI inside knows my song preferences over the years.
When I left office at 4.30 pm, I forgot to give it the command to stop
playing as the volume is quite low. Usually I stop and disconnect the
electric supply and keep the item inside the drawer.
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Thursday, August 25, 2022
Amazon Alexa, playing non-stop for 18 hours and fine ..
I came this morning at 8 am, Alexa was still playing english songs, non-stop even after 18 hours.
Everything fine.. nothing untoward happened in the 18 hours it was on and working. 👍
Alexa
was based on a speech synthesizer technology Ivona developed by a
Polish co. in 2013. Amazon perfected this technology with AI and as of
January 2019, globally there were more than 100 million Alexa enabled
devices.
I have an Alexa enabled Amazon TV,
besides 2 independent units at home in the front room, one Alexa enabled
bulb and one Alexa unit in my office. Besides my Samsung M30S mobile
phone is also Alexa enabled.
The Alexa enabled
smart LED Amazon TV at my home running on Blaupunkt speakers is a good
entertainment and enjoyment for me. Since the remote is Alexa enabled, I
just have to speak to the remote after pressing the Alexa button on the
remote. Smart TV has made Internet and Youtube searches so easy and fast.
It is interesting to see how AI
enabled devices are entering human domain in an increasing way day by
day. I saw Boat Alexa enabled watches for sale on Amazon on Amazon some
months back.
Presently Alexa has not crossed the
AI capability of encoding audio input to text, sending it across the
Internet for retrieval and encoding the results back into audio output
played via the Alexa speakers. Beyond simple news, information retrieval
from wikipedia, music playback, alarm setting, reading out e-books and
control some select hardware, Alexa's capabilities are limited.
Though
presently it is the leader in the AI field, with the early mover
advantage in 2017, Alexa does not have much futuristic desirable
functionality, though all the above competitors have very secretive
programs working round the clock to improve their AI pod functonality
and utility.
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