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Evans: Expecting voice assistants to become universal platforms is a blind alley
“Each one of the things that Alexa can do, somebody had to build, and that doesn't scale, and so the idea this becomes like a universal platform, or it's like it's the next smartphone, is a complete blind alley.”
Messina: Conversational software is a paradigm spanning chat and voice platforms
“It's about conversational software as being a new paradigm for releasing and launching services, features, and tools in a way that previously people didn't have that expectation. And so that's the shift that I see in terms of this new runtime and that those co…”
Sinofsky: Voice assistant divergence will end easy dual-platform hardware integration
“Google is going to have a different set of ideas for what you can do with this device than Amazon does. And once the platforms start diverging, the idea of it being five lines of code and you get both for sort of for free is going to really change.”
Kuyda: 75% of shipped Alexa devices now feature screens
“Every single Alexa right now is, like, 75% of them are being shipped with the screen.”
Sinofsky: 1990s Stanford research predicted politeness toward modern AI assistants
“So like today, we all say thank you to Siri and Alexa, not even thinking about it. Well, they showed that, they demonstrated that, 25 years ago. That it was, that was what was going to happen, and it was just sort of the way that people do that.”