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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by echelon on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:44PM (#21819229)
It's the opposite of what AWS is doing, but not what Amazon as a whole is doing. There was a recent article that said they're considering cost-cutting in the Alexa business unit [1].

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-learns-a-new-...

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by labradore on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:33PM (#21819660)
Does it seriously take 10k people to make Alexa? And she's way dumber than Google. Yes, they should be cutting some costs.
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by logicchains on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:06PM (#21819951)
Maybe it's one of those many-if-statements style AIs.
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by rumanator on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:26PM (#21820144)
We prefer to call them decision trees. It sounds far fancier.
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