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Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by ignoramous on Sunday January 22, 2023 @06:53AM (#34476484)
Not really. Amazon has already started working on "generalizable intelligence" [0] for Alexa inspired by GPT-3 (as they say so themselves) and released to production at least one model (viz Alexa Teacher Model) based on that effort: https://archive.is/gItZq / https://www.amazon.science/blog/scaling-multilingual-virtual...

[0] https://archive.is/UlCpM / https://www.amazon.science/blog/alexas-head-scientist-on-con...

Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by Karunamon on Sunday January 22, 2023 @08:31AM (#34477162)
Worth mentioning that article is from last June, but in December Amazon laid off 10,000 people, most of which were in the Alexa division.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/12/06/amazon-stock-new...

Re:ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voic... by jldugger on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:43PM (#34482026)
> in December Amazon laid off 10,000 people, most of which were in the Alexa division

Maybe the new tech worked _really well_.