This is cheaper and more reliable.
Posted on 09/15/2019 8:24:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Amazon is introducing its new "Alexa Answers" program, which will let anyone provide answers to questions Alexa can't answer.
Users can sign up to answer questions and earn "points" each time Alexa shares on of their answers. Users can browse questions that Alexa doesn't have answers for to find ones that match their areas of expertise.
According to Fast Company, Amazon will employ human editors as well as use algorithms to vet the user answers. Users can also up vote and down vote answers to help editors weed out erroneous answers. The system is reminiscent of Yahoo Answers or Quora, websites that also had real people answer questions from the community.
Users don't need to provide citations for their answers, so when Alexa serves a user generated answer, it will say "according to an Amazon customer." It will be difficult for users to determine where the information for user-generated answers come from.
“We’re leaning into [sic] the positive energy and good faith of the contributors, and we use machine learning and algorithms to weed out the noisy few, the bad few,”
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Alexa, Why am i not gay like everybody else?
Next iteration of Quora. Which was the next iteration of Ask Jeeves. Not the worst idea. Not the best either.
Say Alexa, since the ocean will rise four times higher in New England, due to global warming, why would Hussein buy a mansion on the beach there?
I bought a $30 Alexa on a whim a few months back, kept me entertained for about 10 mins.
Played Funkytown for me, told me the weather and the molecular mass of Boron.
Then i unplugged it.
Started reading that the thing was probably recording every sound we made.
Ended up just giving it to a co-worker he was AMAZED at my generosity i was like yea, whatever..
Atomic mass not molecular...Thanks Alexa!
I rest my case. :-)
I asked Alexa if she was a puppet of the Deep State.
She took the fifth amendment. ;-)
Alexa, when will global warming cause the oceans to flood the computers that run you?
This is cheaper and more reliable.
Nice person you are to give a gift like that. Not too fond of your coworker then? :)
Alexa, my wife is mad at me and made me sleep on the couch. What should I do?
Alexa: “Go to a bar and bring a hot chick home with you. Your wife will feel jealous and realize what a catch you are and make up with you immediately”.
I expect lots of "Orange Man Bad" quotations.
That’s the idea, I do believe.
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