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Originally Posted by Quoth
You are missing the point. Alexa needs 1000s of people to keep it working.
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Isn't that just like many other companies out there? Twitter, Hilton Hotels, Netflix, CNN, United Airlines...
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The Listening Companions are a fraud. They need 1000s of humans listing to conversations all the time. That's why Amazon is looking at making 10,000 people redundant.[/QUOTE]
Those listeners must be really fast. I can tell Alexa to "turn on the lights" and the people listening behind the scenes have that all completed in a maybe 500 milliseconds or so. Is Amazon looking at making 10,000 people redundant (do you mean lay them off?) in an attempt to kill Alexa? That would be a really interesting corporate move, given they just advertised and sold a ton more of these devices over Black Friday. And all the third party devices that are designed to work with Alexa, are their manufacturers going to be happy with Amazon if Alexa just goes away? Amazon would be slitting their own throat.