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Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because the elephant in the room is that AI isn't actually AI but is a huge database of internet and creative content combined with a language processing tool that takes its best guess at how to respond with that information to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

AI today is just linear algorithms with bigger faster databases.