Amazon is working to relaunch its Alexa voice-powered digital assistant as an AI “agent” that can complete practical tasks, Madhumita Murgia and Camilla Hodgson of The Financial Times reports. Over the past two years, the company has sought to redesign its Alexa to make the software’s “brain” transplanted with generative AI. Rohit Prasad, who leads the artificial general intelligence team at the company, told the Financial Times the voice assistant still needs to overcome several technical hurdles before its release.
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