Amazon’s upcoming Alexa AI brain transplant might make you use it more than just weather and timers

• Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s AGI team team, promised a major Alexa upgrade is on the horizon.
• He spoke with FT on issues forcing a delay in the release, mainly in the realm of hallucinations.
• When the new Alexa arrives the hope is it will be used for more than just basic tasks.

Amazon has spent years extolling Alexa’s abilities as a voice assistant, even though it seems most people use it mainly to set timers and check the weather.

Even so, that hasn’t stopped Amazon from plotting a far bigger place…