Amazon改造Alexa計畫6月收費,但傳出內部意見分歧
· 2024-01-22

媒體爆料Amazon計畫今年中旬推出基於生成式AI的付費版Alexa Plus,但自家員工認為Alexa Plus的服務與技術尚未成熟

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《Business Insiders》報導,Amazon為語音助理Alexa加入AI功能改造,並計畫推出付費版Alexa Plus,不過傳出開發團隊為此內部意見分歧。

10年前論及AI語音助理,首推Amazon Alexa。不過在微軟、Google相繼投入生成式AI科技挹注開發後,Alexa已經遠遠落後。去年Amazon改組Alexa研發部門,試圖以AI改造,好追趕競爭者,最新的計畫是推出收費方案。

《BI》報導,新開發的服務暫名為Alexa Plus,預計6月30日推出,開發團隊目前卻發生因收費問題出現歧見,可能導致上線時程延宕。爭吵的原因是一派人認為,目前版本還存在太多AI幻覺及效能問題。

Amazon目前有1.5萬名客戶正在測試其代號Remarkable Alexa的底層技術。報導引述員工說法指出,Remarkable AI對話能力還不錯,但執行其他任務的能力卻很差。例如它可以侃侃而談,內容卻錯誤百出,也無法回應需要多種服務的複雜問題。此外,新Alexa需Amazon技術及基礎架構重大變更,令資深員工不滿,迫使Amazon保留原有技術,卻導致Remarkable Alexa過於腫脹無法使用。有一些員工對收費沒信心,他們認為不會有人願意付費。

近年許多Amazon服務都開始收取月費,像是Prime或有聲書服務Audible等。但Amazon希望開始對Alexa服務收費並不意外。Alexa現有用戶7,500萬,但開發Alexa是很燒錢的業務,多次嘗試獲利方案的Alexa屢屢失敗,未能為Amazon帶進實質營收,據傳虧損上百億美元,接任的執行長Andy Jassy失去耐性。去年Amazon裁員大刀揮向Echo和Alexa部門,8月間媒體報導,開發Alexa的消費硬體部門主管下臺,新上任的主管Rohit Prasad將同時掌管AI及LLM,率領以AI改造Alexa。

不只是Amazon、OpenAI、Stability AI、Anthropic這些新創,連微軟都推出企業版、部門版或個人版AI聊天機器人收費方案,如ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise、或是Copilot Enterprise/Pro等。Google現在還沒有,但有用戶發現,Google可能已經在測試付費版Bard Advanced。

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