Amazon Says All It Needs to Do Before Releasing an AI-Powered Alexa Is to Solve the Giant Engineering Problem That Nobody Else on Earth Has Been Able to Solve

Amazon is still hard at work in its efforts to realize an AI-powered Alexa digital assistant.

As the Financial Times reports, the tech giant still has to sort out “several technical hurdles” before rolling out the long-awaited feature. One of them, according to Amazon AI team lead Rohit Prasad, is solving the pesky issue of “hallucinations” — an industry term denoting the non-factual hallucinations that large language models often spit out, to the chagrin of many companies attempting to…