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06-15-2024, 04:19 AM
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A new report suggests that Amazon is struggling to develop a large language model (LLM) that can compete with OpenAI and Google.
The model is set to power an already-announced Alexa upgrade that brings conversational abilities to the assistant.
Limited data sets and a lack of vision stalled progress, leading to the exit of many talented researchers and scientists.
A new report has come to light that suggests Amazons generative AI-powered Alexa (https://www.androidauthority.com/how-does-alexa-work-3209316/) is nowhere near completion and may never even see the light of day. The report, compiled by Fortune (https://fortune.com/2024/06/12/amazon-insiders-why-new-alexa-llm-generative-ai-conversational-chatbot-missing-in-action/) through interviews with over a dozen former employees, lists several hurdles that the company has faced while developing its conversational AI. Amazon demoed its next-generation Alexa late last year and promised to launch a limited preview in the US “soon.†Eight months have passed, however, with no sign of the new Alexa.
According to the report, the lack of high-quality data has slowed down Amazons large language model (LLM) efforts tremendously. The e-commerce company lacks extensive datasets as it doesnt operate a search engine like Google or social networks like Meta. As a result, its LLM was trained on just three trillion tokens  the smallest unit of data in a language model. For comparison, OpenAIs GPT-4 model is believed to have been trained on 13 trillion tokens.
More... (https://www.androidauthority.com/conversational-alexa-upgrade-delay-3451702/)
A new report suggests that Amazon is struggling to develop a large language model (LLM) that can compete with OpenAI and Google.
The model is set to power an already-announced Alexa upgrade that brings conversational abilities to the assistant.
Limited data sets and a lack of vision stalled progress, leading to the exit of many talented researchers and scientists.
A new report has come to light that suggests Amazons generative AI-powered Alexa (https://www.androidauthority.com/how-does-alexa-work-3209316/) is nowhere near completion and may never even see the light of day. The report, compiled by Fortune (https://fortune.com/2024/06/12/amazon-insiders-why-new-alexa-llm-generative-ai-conversational-chatbot-missing-in-action/) through interviews with over a dozen former employees, lists several hurdles that the company has faced while developing its conversational AI. Amazon demoed its next-generation Alexa late last year and promised to launch a limited preview in the US “soon.†Eight months have passed, however, with no sign of the new Alexa.
According to the report, the lack of high-quality data has slowed down Amazons large language model (LLM) efforts tremendously. The e-commerce company lacks extensive datasets as it doesnt operate a search engine like Google or social networks like Meta. As a result, its LLM was trained on just three trillion tokens  the smallest unit of data in a language model. For comparison, OpenAIs GPT-4 model is believed to have been trained on 13 trillion tokens.
More... (https://www.androidauthority.com/conversational-alexa-upgrade-delay-3451702/)