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Even the Echo can struggle with the Amazon Event’s Wi-Fi, but the AI demo is impressive.
Limp is showing off the new LLM powering Alexa at the event, and it’s slow, much like the Wi-Fi currently at the Amazon event, but it did know Limp’s favorite football team without prompting.
And apparently, Alexa is a Seahawks fan.
The most impressive part of this troubled demo was the total lack of wake words between each question. Limp grilled it like a 5-year-old when they see you have a Nintendo Switch and apart from Wi-Fi hiccups it sounded like a normal conversation.
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