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“#Amazon’s Alexa Can Now Ask You Follow-Up Questions
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Responding to demands from consumers for \u201can Alexa, but make it talk even more,\u201d Amazon announced on Wednesday that its latest digital assistant model will be able to infer a user\u2019s \u201clatent goals,\u201d and will use those to pose follow-up questions to users.<\/p>\n

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If you ask your new Alexa how long it takes to cook an over-easy egg, Alexa will tell you that it takes roughly 1 1\/2 minutes\u2014and then ask you if you\u2019d like to set a timer. <\/p>\n

According to Amazon<\/a><\/span>, the update involves algorithmic tweaks and a deep learning model that will allow the device to evolve based on its relationship to the user. If you\u2019re asking Alexa about how to cook eggs every morning and always opting to set the timer, Alexa\u2019s discovery model will use active learning to improve its predictions and more accurately conclude whether or not you want to know when those 1 1\/2 minutes are up.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAmazon\u2019s goal for Alexa is that customers should find interacting with her as natural as interacting with another human being,\u201d Amazon wrote in a blog post<\/a><\/span>. \u201cWhile [app<\/a>s] may experience different results, our early metrics show that latent goal [inference] has increased customer engagement with some developers\u2019 apps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amazon seems to acknowledge the fact that latent goal discovery comes with the potential to be very, very annoying. In early prototypes, when users requested \u201crecipes for chicken\u201d, for example, Alexa would reportedly follow up by asking, \u201cDo you want me to play chicken sounds?\u201d <\/p>\n