“No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culimonal Future of Plant-Based Eating” by Paul Tough on “The Have a Nice Future”

It required extensive engineering to get the language skills of the popular voice assistant, because the large language models that power services like it can make up facts, blurt out nonsense, and be downright inappropriate. This is a huge leap given the limitations of language models.

At an event at Amazon’s second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, the company announced a new upgrade to its voice assistant. The assistant will answer much more complex questions and engage in more flowing, open-ended conversation, dropping the need for users to say “Alexa …” at each turn.

On Wednesday, demos on stage showed more of a mimicked personality and effort at humor. Videos showed people asking Alexa to write poems on a theme, brainstorm ideas for a date night, and generate a story about Jell-O. Devices equipped with cameras, such as the Echo Show, will try to detect when a person is expecting Alexa to continue the conversation and when the conversation is over.

Will recommends a tool that will give you an agent that can take over boring parts of your life. “No Meat Required: The Cultural History andculimonal Future of Plant-Based Eating” was recommended by Mike. A journalist named Paul Tough is on the Have a Nice Futurepodcast where he talks about the future of higher education.

WKNYC: The Breaking of the Cold Ice Ice Age I: Will Knight on the Social Network Site, Lauren Goode and Boone Ashworth

Will Knight can be found on the social networking site. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. There is a person named Michael Calore. The main hotline needs to be blinged out. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.

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