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Originally Posted by haertig
Isn't that just like many other companies out there? Twitter, Hilton Hotels, Netflix, CNN, United Airlines...
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No, those are completely different. Also different from each other. You can't seriously believe that.
Twitter: Human generated content and inept adverts and other posts in your timeline.
CNN: Simply a web site.
Netflix: Simple database front end to video streaming.
I don't even know what you mean by "Hilton Hotels". Their booking system? Or have they got an in house ordering app simulating a concierge? That's far simpler than Alexa, Cortana, Siri or Google Go, but could use one of them as a backend.
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Originally Posted by haertig
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.
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Obviously common commands are curated ages ago and in the pattern matching database (a process dishonestly called "Machine Learning").
That kind of thing was available 25 years ago and doesn't need the Internet, but Alexa needs the internet because the database is on a remote Amazon server, though you can test if it caches by disconnecting internet and seeing do any commands work.