This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon and Microsoft are racing to outline the following period of shopper AI, on a number of fronts. We focus on Amazon’s try and improve Alexa into a real generative AI residence chatbot — full with a brand new internet portal and up to date Alexa app — whereas Microsoft tries to win over retailers with a brand new Copilot Checkout characteristic.
Plus, we discover Google’s upcoming “AI Inbox” for Gmail, which guarantees to behave like an govt assistant in your e-mail. We speak about our good hen feeder experiment that resulted in “fuzzy birds,” because of improper focal size. And we share our preliminary expertise with AI automation on the Home windows PC desktop utilizing Vy from Seattle startup Vercept.
Lastly, we provide a Netflix advice, Cowl-Up, the documentary about legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. We couldn’t assist however surprise: what would uncover if he might digitize all these notes and put them by way of an AI mannequin?
And on that theme, we lament the lack of a significant American newspaper, the Pittsburgh Publish-Gazette, and reminisce concerning the time GeekWire made an look on its editorial web page.
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With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Prepare dinner. Edited by Curt Milton.
