How would a smarter Alexa allow them to “dominate AI”? What even is the vision here that would allow domination over competitors like Google and allow a massive boost in profits? It all seems like a giant waste of time for them.
Imagine if that box were able to (somewhat) intelligently answer questions.
I'm sure everyone here has asked Alexa some random type of questions .. sometimes you can get an answer from wikipedia, but mostly it's just "sorry i don't know that", and people settle for a subset of standard voice commands to play music or dim the lights.
Amazon had 10,000 people working on this product for a very long time, and had the lead in market share of a device that people talk to regularly.
It's one of the biggest technology balls to ever be dropped.
So the vision for Amazon is their box and underlying AI would forever be ahead of Google and Apple? So incredibly far ahead in fact, that Google and Apple’s massive amounts of user data and decades of habitual use (through Google search, Apple/Google maps, YouTube, Apple/Google pay, and a dozen other multi-billion dollar services) still isn’t enough to prevent Alexa’s AI domination? Again, it all seems like a massive waste of time.