Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec::In an interview with Bloomberg, Dave Limp said that he “absolutely” believes that Amazon will soon start charging a subscription fee for Alexa

  • negativeyoda@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They thought people would be like “Alexa, but me a ton of shit on Amazon” but people just use it for timers and the weather

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      1 year ago

      They had those “re-order product” physical buttons for a while which you were supposed to glue to your washing machine so you could reorder when your detergent ran out.

      Besides legal issues (at least over here all they could do is put things in your shopping cart) apparently the primary customers of those buttons were hardware hackers, turning them into all kinds of stuff.