Alexa
An AI assistant that further advanced the trend of personified AI interaction, leveraging far-field speech recognition.
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Videos Mentioning Alexa
Balaji Srinivasan — How to Start a New Country
Tim Ferriss
Amazon's AI voice assistant, speculated to be developing training data for future mobile AR applications.
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition
Y Combinator
Amazon's voice assistant, discussed in the context of potential integrations for reading Instapaper articles aloud.
Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity
Y Combinator
Mentioned as an example of a pure software AI with natural language processing, but not capable of being a full-time assistant.
Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space | Lex Fridman Podcast #283
Lex Fridman
Amazon's virtual assistant, mentioned in the context of teaching children politeness toward AI systems for better human-AI interaction.
Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and The Rolling Stones | Lex Fridman Podcast #259
Lex Fridman
Amazon's voice AI assistant, cited as an example of current basic home AI systems.
Neuralink & Technologies to Enhance Human Brains | Dr. Matthew MacDougall
Andrew Huberman
Amazon's virtual assistant, mentioned as a potential device for receiving thought-activated communication from a brain implant.
Work at a Startup Expo 2018
Y Combinator
Volley develops voice-controlled games for Amazon Alexa, with Song Quiz being the number one game on the platform.
Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #241
Lex Fridman
Amazon's voice assistant, used as an example of a device that people generally do not tolerate initiating conversations proactively, contrasting it with character-driven robots like Cozmo.
Jane McGonigal — How She Predicted COVID in 2010, Becoming the Expert of Your Own Future, and More
Tim Ferriss
A voice assistant, mentioned as an example of smart speakers that collect data about users' voices, posing a future privacy risk if systems are hacked.
Kate Darling: Social Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #98
Lex Fridman
A voice assistant used at home for convenient ordering, highlighting the trade-off between functionality and data privacy.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
All-In Podcast
Amazon's virtual assistant, contrasted with ChatGPT's capabilities due to its rigidity and lack of advanced natural language processing.
Rodney Brooks: Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #217
Lex Fridman
Amazon's AI-powered virtual assistant, used as an example of current conversational AI and challenges in prolonged human-like interaction.
Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #215
Lex Fridman
An AI assistant, mentioned as an example of a system whose promise for natural language interaction could be fulfilled by Codex.
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
All-In Podcast
Amazon's voice assistant, compared to TikTok for its always-listening capabilities but with a perceived sense of safety due to being an American company.
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
All-In Podcast
Amazon's voice assistant, used as a comparison for ChatGPT's potential interface and capabilities.
Jack Kornfield — Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy in the Present | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
Amazon's virtual assistant, used as an example of an algorithm in the discussion of building compassion into technology interfaces.
Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home's Brain
Y Combinator
An Amazon smart home device that McCarthy finds provocative, comparing its user acceptance favorably to Google Glass and noting its gradual integration into homes.
How Much Does the Future Matter?: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #292)
Sam Harris
Amazon's virtual assistant, used as an example of current AI that could become indistinguishable from humans in conversation.
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #35
Lex Fridman
Amazon's AI-powered virtual assistant, mentioned in the context of audio processing challenges and opportunities.
Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin | Lex Fridman Podcast #33
Lex Fridman
Used as an analogy to describe the function of the 'Maya' AI assistant system being developed for space applications.
Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #74
Lex Fridman
Amazon's voice assistant, discussed as a research platform with potential for useful, non-intrusive AI interactions.
Christof Koch: Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #2
Lex Fridman
A virtual assistant, mentioned as an example of AI that will soon pass the Turing test.
Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health | Lex Fridman Podcast #24
Lex Fridman
A virtual assistant developed by Amazon, discussed in relation to its potential to understand and respond to human emotion.
David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #69
Lex Fridman
Amazon's virtual assistant, used as an example of an AI system to which we typically do not ascribe moral status because it is not considered conscious.