An update on that AI-powered Alexa.

Amazon’s AGI lead Rohit Prasad told The Financial Times that Alexa’s generative AI makeover still faces technical hurdles, including fabricated answers, reliability, and response speed, and will be relaunched as an AI Agent when sorted.

“Hallucinations have to be close to zero,” said Prasad. “It’s still an open problem in the industry, but we are working extremely hard on it.”