Amazon's Echo devices will now allow kids to have interactive conversations with an AI-powered Alexa via a new feature called "Explore with Alexa." First
Amazon’s Echo devices will now allow kids to have interactive conversations with an AI-powered Alexa via a new feature called “Explore with Alexa.” First announced in September, the addition to the Amazon Kids+ content subscription allows children to have kid-friendly conversations with Alexa, powered by generative AI, but in a protected fashion designed to ensure the experience remains safe and appropriate.
In time, the team would like to expand the AI to include other areas of interest to kids, like space, music, video games, and sports.
In other words, kids aren’t using generative AI on the fly when conversing with Alexa, and the content is pre-reviewed and comes from a small dataset of just animal facts and sources.
Amazon is also preparing to launch an AI-powered “Let’s Chat” Alexa experience for adults later this year, he says, based on the same LLM stack.
Kids can use the devices to hear a greeting, fun fact, or joke about an Avenger or Disney Princess, in keeping with the theme.
“I will say that in terms of our criteria for when we’re going to get there, we’re working closely with the Family Trust team at Amazon that’s connected to a variety of research institutions in the U.S…we want to be able to get some confidence from external partners that our approach is right,” he adds.
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Amazon’s Echo devices will now allow kids to have interactive conversations with an AI-powered Alexa via a new feature called “Explore with Alexa.” First announced in September, the addition to the Amazon Kids+ content subscription allows children to have kid-friendly conversations with Alexa, powered by generative AI, but in a protected fashion designed to ensure the experience remains safe and appropriate.
In time, the team would like to expand the AI to include other areas of interest to kids, like space, music, video games, and sports.
In other words, kids aren’t using generative AI on the fly when conversing with Alexa, and the content is pre-reviewed and comes from a small dataset of just animal facts and sources.
Amazon is also preparing to launch an AI-powered “Let’s Chat” Alexa experience for adults later this year, he says, based on the same LLM stack.
Kids can use the devices to hear a greeting, fun fact, or joke about an Avenger or Disney Princess, in keeping with the theme.
“I will say that in terms of our criteria for when we’re going to get there, we’re working closely with the Family Trust team at Amazon that’s connected to a variety of research institutions in the U.S…we want to be able to get some confidence from external partners that our approach is right,” he adds.
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