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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Alexa Hunches for Smart Homes

Just started experimenting with Alexa Hunches, a method that claims to makes suggestions for you (Nudges from a Nudge engine?)   Can a skill tune your hunches to a context?  Based on data regarding your behavior ...    Privacy issues?  Will report further, as yet have received no smart home 'hunches'.  Out of toilet paper? 

Alexa Hunches can now suggest actions based on daily behavior
By Shannon Liao@Shannon_Liao in TheVerge

Amazon is now launching Alexa Hunches, where the voice assistant will predict your future needs. It uses deep neural networks to understand behavior and Alexa Hunches is first going to focus on the smart home.

How it works is that Alexa will feel like it’s getting a “hunch” and if it’s confident enough, it will say something like, “Hey, I think you left the porch light on, would you like me to turn it off?” Alexa could also remind you to lock the front door if you haven’t already when you say “Goodnight.”  .... " 

Amazon describes hunches.

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