Amazon Needs to Kill Alexa, Maybe Exit Echo Devices
The Street
By Daniel Kline The online retail giant had a plan to own your living room. It didn’t work because AI-powered voice assistants don’t work. Amazon (AMZN) – Get Free Report had a grand plan to infiltrate every home in America — maybe in the World — using its devices to put a store into everyone’s living room. It was a simple idea, whereby the company would make easy-to-use voice-based devices that ran off a powerful artificial-intelligence system that would serve as a low-cost virtual assistant. Everyone would buy Echo devices because they were cheap and useful. Amazon used its scale to keep p… Read More “Amazon Needs to Kill Alexa, Maybe Exit Echo Devices”