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Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Alexa will be a Concierge

Its the ultimate kind of intelligence.  We called it a concierge skill.  Its not what you know, its who you know, or what you have that knows, and can apply it to your need.    Its the simplest and most useful kind of dialog.  The beginnings of AI.  Now how well will it do that?

Alexa will recommend third-party skills for things it can’t do
The feature is limited for now but should get better over time.  By Rob LeFebvre, @roblef

When Amazon's Alexa doesn't know how the answer to a question, the digital assistant typically just says so. Now, though, instead of "Hmmmm. I don't know that," Alexa may start to recommend third-party skills to help you out more effectively.

In a video shot by Voicebot's Bret Kinsella, you can clearly hear Alexa recommending a non-Amazon skill to answer his question about Apple stock prices. According to Kinsella, after Alexa asked if he wanted to use a skill to answer his stock query, it went straight to a genera listing of prices instead of addressing the specific question he originally asked.  ... " 

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