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Amazon's AI lead says technical issues are holding back Alexa AI

Amazon has to overcome 'several technical hurdles' because it can roll out the new Alexa, according to The Financial Times.

Hallucinations have to be "close to zero," Rohit Prasad, leader of Amazon's artificial general intelligence (AGI) team told FT. Since people tend to use Alexa throughout the day, it could end up spitting out a lot of false information if Amazon fails to address the issue. Amazon still has a lot of things to do, they said, such as making sure it works "close to 100 percent of the time," adding child safety filters and testing Alexa various integrations.

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