Amazon Reveals New Features To Update Its Alexa

The updates come as Amazon attempts to keep pace with a new wave of conversational AI tools that have accelerated the artificial intelligence arms race in the tech industry.

Amazon Alexa is set to bring AI inside your home as the company introduces changes to how its voice assistant sounds and functions.

Amazon announced the generative AI update for Alexa, which will allow the device to resume conversations without a wake word. It will also be able to respond quicker, learn user preferences, field follow-up questions and change its tone based on the topic.

The new version will even offer opinions, such as which movies should have won an Oscar but didn’t.

The updates come as Amazon attempts to keep pace with a new wave of conversational AI tools that have accelerated the artificial intelligence arms race in the tech industry.