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Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 47:56 Eugenia Kuyda Way to interact with, uh, the computer, but every single Alexa right now is, like, 75% of them are being shipped with the screen.
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 29:38 Anish Acharya I mean, ideally the Alexa in your kitchen
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- ▶ 2:54 Aaron Levie There was really few products other than, like, maybe Siri, Alexa, et cetera, that you'd interact with that would even have
Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
- ▶ 0:47 Steph Smith To me, when I think of AI voice, or at least voice products, I think of Alexa, I think of Siri, and I actually, I personally turn off Siri.
- ▶ 1:28 Olivia Moore So like a Siri or an Alexa, it might be connected to kind of a basic set of integrations within the Apple ecosystem or within the Amazon ecosystem.
- ▶ 7:27 Olivia Moore So again, hearkening back to like a Siri or Alexa.
- ▶ 9:57 Anish Acharya And I would argue even for the Alexis and series, like even if they didn't invest a lot more in intelligence and capabilities, if they over invested in emotionality,
Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
- ▶ 51:15 Ankit Kumar And when you say, when you talk to Alexa or something, or like another voice assistant, and they kind of say your name wrong, it feels bad, right?
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 46:44 Ben Horowitz And, and so like, it just turns out to be harder than Alexa, uh, amazingly.
Big Ideas in 2024: Voice-First Apps Will Become Integral to Our Lives with Anish Acharya
- ▶ 2:36 Anish Acharya You know, Alexa and some of the past generation voice assistants.
- ▶ 7:42 unnamed speaker I can start a song with my Alexa.
Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 27:37 Frank Chen If you think about what we want out of a smart coach that we're not getting from Alexa today, it's the ability to understand us much better and answer much higher level questions.
- ▶ 34:58 Frank Chen So exactly the same thing that's in Alexa today.
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 29:20 Chris Dixon The technology's still, like, all these things, like, even the, you know, I mean, like, Lex is awesome, but, like, you know, autocorrect breaks half the time.
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- ▶ 13:45 Chris Dixon The, the key input to any kind of artificial intelligence algorithm, like if you're trying to create like an Alexa speaker kind of thing, uh, or a self-driving car, um, the algorithms are more or less out there, public domain. 2 times in the scene
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 7:58 Steven Sinofsky So like today, we all say thank you to Siri and Alexa, not even thinking about it.
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 1:50 Benedict Evans oh wow, Google's having a really big push in everything has got Google Assistant in this year, or everything has Alexa in, or oh wow, everyone's doing curved screens.
- ▶ 24:18 Benedict Evans And that's where we're seeing, like, the connective tissue emerging, which is the Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple relaunching HomeKit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:11 Steven Sinofsky So then enters Alexa. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:24 Steven Sinofsky Like I, I saw a bed that you could talk to Alexa via.
a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
- ▶ 17:01 Dave Turetsky And so that's happening more quickly with speech recognition because of the proliferation of speech recognition applications, Alexa and phones and so on.
- ▶ 29:43 Boris Soffman We're releasing Alexa integration in December, which is going to be the first time you truly have 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:31 Boris Soffman Alexa and some of these voice assistants trying to integrate with the rest of your life.
a16z Podcast | The Self-Flying Camera
- ▶ 15:38 Chris Dixon Just from a technology point of view that people started to see it for like Alexa and products like this, and generally there's sort of, you know, there's been all of this incredible progress in AI in the last couple years, but I think…
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 1:14 Benedict Evans Yeah, I mean, so you see, clearly there's a whole Alexa story, and then you've got people going around saying, well, Alexa and voice is a new platform, and this is going to replace smartphones, and Amazon's got off to a great start, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:51 Benedict Evans Plus, if I want to actually get into Best Buy, they're going to tell me, well, you've got to support Alexa and Google Home and HomeKit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:08 Benedict Evans Will you say, hey, Alexa, turn on the extractor fan? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:04 Steven Sinofsky Like, they don't even know if you have Alexa, Siri, or Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:19 Benedict Evans Yeah, and so that's the, that's the, there's a massive Amazon Facebook motivation here, which drove the Kindle Fire, and then now has driven Alexa, and drove a bunch of stuff for Facebook, and so there's a bunch of reasons why people want… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:02 Benedict Evans Back to our talking, we were talking about connected home here, what you have on Alexa is somebody built a washing machine, and somebody built a dishwasher, and somebody built a toaster, and somebody built a fridge, but each one of the… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:19 Steven Sinofsky Finally, just really want to touch on this point about being cross-platform, and whether you should embed the Alexa runtime, or the Siri runtime, or the, which you can embed, or the Google runtime, which is, was Google's Hey Google… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tech Policy and the Courts
- ▶ 18:40 Karen Dunn Similarly, in this, I don't know if you're similarly following the Alexa murder case, where 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 18:42 Luke Wroblewski I've had my Alexa for years and I love the thing, but like, I don't know what the hell it does, right? 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 11:35 Sonal Chokshi You didn't mention Amazon, which is sort of the stealth player here with Echo and Alexa.
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 16:07 Kyle Russell It's more like Alexa, where they're reliant on particular developers to introduce new skills.
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 36:20 Chris Messina And so that's the shift that I see in terms of this new runtime and that those conversations will take many forms, whether they're in the form of chat and, you know, with chat bubbles and the conventional kind of like back and forth,…
- ▶ 38:18 Sonal Chokshi That is as good as my relationship with Alexa in the sense that I can, it has a personality and something that not like Tay, just something that I really just want to interact with as my go-to place.
What's Next in Consumer Startups?
- ▶ 21:47 Andrew Chen There's Alexa.
AI: What's Working, What's Not
- ▶ 3:49 Frank Chen Alexa?
Software Secures the World
- ▶ 13:29 Martin Casado And oh, by the way, voice is an enormously important way of not only accessing, say, your bank account or your, ah, your telephone account, but now anything is like Alexis and things catch on.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 11:02 Benedict Evans Speech recognition that Amazon uses for Alexa, and you can plug it into your own product using, using an Amazon cloud product.
- ▶ 14:13 Benedict Evans At the other extreme, you have kind of frictionless computing, I think, in devices like Alexa, the Amazon Echo, or Snapchat Spectacles, where you don't have any buttons, or any apps, or any intermediate steps. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:30 Benedict Evans That is to say, you ask Alexa to get you more soap, or you buy an Amazon Dash button and you put it in your washing machine.