You purchased it and you kept it, while it’s been pretty meh. They could’ve released it with new hardware but didn’t. AI isn’t free to provide. Just stick with your old Alexa, which I passed on for being meh myself
@@HenkHeidstra I understand AI isn't "free" to provide - I run small LLM's and various AI on my home lab servers, however, a huge juggernaut like Amazon has tremendous resources and could easily incorporate the AI into the membership price point. Of course, being a closed system the Alexa hardware cannot be (readily) flashed to work with our own LLMs (yet?). Nor does it have the GPU or tensor hardware to facilitate on-board AI, but that can all be done on the back end. So yes - I will be keeping my "dumb" Alexa assistant until something new comes along to replace it. At least I can turn off lights and get the weather. My point was this: Some of us have purchased the Alexa device in the hopes that it's functionality would have advanced and the device become an integral part of our daily routines. To some degree that has happened, but then they took those features and made them PAID features. We early adopters who bought into the Alexa Smart Assistant ecosphere have been left with a product that has barely moved the needle. Personally, I have 5 Alexa devices. Now I have to pay more to get it to where it should have evolved to over time? Would you feel the same if they stopped making tires for _your_ car?
It’s fairly useless. Google Assistant used to be better but that’s been dumbed down too. - And Siri only integrates with a few devices. Basically, it’s 2024 and there is no good smart home assistant. Like printers, they just don’t work
I won't be paying for a "more advanced Alexa", I don't need tips on shopping, I don't need to know what to wear on a trip I'll never be able to afford because I'm being bled to death by micro-service transactions like Alexa's new AI. I don't have kids, and if I did, I'd read them bed time stories myself instead of relying on an AI to do it.
I would not pay for it, I just use Alexa to set timers ; reminders and ask the weather lol it would be hard to get people to buy something that has been free for many years and works well, plus I use Claude already as a single app,
It costs to run the servers that process cloud based ai requests, so sadly until the hardware improves alot more so more of it can be done locally on device, there will be subscriptions that personally I'd never get into.
@@lightkeeper609 Are you calling them a boomer, or the old version of Alexa a boomer? People who already bought an Alexa-capable device and use it without a subscription are mostly people who also have Amazon Prime - nobody is going to want to pay for both Prime and another subscription - especially when they already subscribe to a more advanced LLM model somewhere. If you already subscribe to an Anthropic service OR Amazon Prime, you should get to use at least a 'basic-functionality' version of this with it. They already screwed up once in the AI space, won't be too surprised to see them do it again. XD
@@NickDrinksWater Oh, Alexa? Isn't it just the pinnacle of high-tech wizardry? It's a revolutionary device designed to perform groundbreaking tasks like turning your lights on and off, setting alarms, and occasionally stumbling through incredibly complex questions like “What's the weather?” It’s like having a personal assistant who’s great at flipping switches but not much else. But hey, if you’re looking for a bit more sophistication, there are other alternatives out there, like Nest, Samsung SmartThings, Sonos, Yonomi, etc. that offer a little more pizzazz and functionality. Because clearly, asking Alexa what the weather is like or setting a timer for your pasta is the pinnacle of tech evolution. Subscriptions are for technology that has true value, Alexa is just a dumb gimmick.
@@Atreyuwu Amazon prime is for deliveries and TV programmes, not for AI. Amazon already lose shedloads of money by providing the Alexa service for free. You (and many others) are suggesting that Amazon should invest loads of money into vastly improving Alexa and make it for free so they lose yet more money? Ludicrous!
Amazon is ALREADY an extremely profitable business, and AI should be an improvement they are making without demanding any more money from the customers. A 'good' business instead of a greedy one would always simply use 'some' of the profits to continuously improve the service.
If it's not part of my prime membership, im not paying extra. Let's add to the fact that you're not going to be able to use your existing alexa devices. You would need new ones that work with the new AI.
Why the heck should it be part of a prime membership when that is a completely different thing? I don't want to pay for cr@ppy TV programmes when I want an enhanced Alexa! And no new devices are required the last I heard.
AI Assistant also called an AI Virtual Assistant, is software powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that responds to inquiries in human-like languages in text or voice format. [Aisera]
It’ll depend on what the new Claude addition brings to Alexa. I.e. there’s a lot of value in paying for ChatGPT’s 4o, so if Anthropic is able to deliver a model that can provide real value to Amazon’s Alexa, then I would definitely consider paying for it.
Ah finally someone who understands! I subscribe to both Chat GPT and Claude. Claude 3.5 sonet (their latest) was actually better than Chat GPT 4 and then OpenAI released 4O which is just slightly better than Claude. So they are roughly equivelant. I haven't used Claude voice mode so not sure if its fully on par with 4O (aka acting like an excitable girl) or not. But I pay $20 a month for Claude so better believe I'll order this ASAP, particularly if it is only $5 or $10 a month.
Claude is a better conversational model which is how it would be used. I use ChatGPT most of the time, but also subscribe to Claude. I think this is a good move. I doubt I subscribe.
@@KevinRank It would be a good move if they were to include the new subscription with Amazon Prime and opened up API access so you can use their AI with an LLM of your choice (I wouldn't even mind if they locked it down to Anthropic API, so long as you could bring you utilize your already existing subscription). Most people who own an existing Alexa device already have an Amazon Prime subscription and a good deal are already subscribed to a given LLM - and as much as us 'AI enthusiasts' may be willing to shell out some extra cash for the use of multiple models, I don't think most people who are already paying for Prime and/or an LLM will want to.
If Amazon ditches the sponsored ads with the new paid remarkable Alexa they will have a winning combo. A lot of people are getting annoyed with the ads screens. Maybe that’s their strategy ad ads so people will pay to remove them and upgrade the service.. Genius.
No, Claude and its owner company Anthropic are not related to Alexa or Amazon. Anthropic is an independent artificial intelligence research company, separate from Amazon or any of its subsidiaries. Amazon develops Alexa, their own virtual assistant, while Anthropic created me (Claude) as a separate AI assistant. The two companies and their respective AI assistants are entirely distinct and unaffiliated with each other.
The advanced features promised with the paid version sounds interesting. I look forward to trying it out. For all the naysayers, I would suggest Amazon offer the "Remarkable Alexa" for a free 10-day test drive, and allow us to create our own wake words (Like "J.A.R.V.I.S.) and voices to differentiate the product from the free Classic Version. I believe this will improve the chances for adoption, and subscriptions.
Good suggestions. Have you used Claude? I subscribe to it currently ($20/month) and it is about as good as Chat GPT 4O. I haven't used Claude's voice mode but I expect it is decent.
@@Me__Myself__and__I - Pi is my AI of choice, however it doesn't offer an API for development. The most flexible AI product I have used recently is Character AI on Android, and you can develop your own AI, with parameters, a still image, and you can even upload a voice sample to use as well...and best of all it is free! I would recommend giving that one a try.
If it’s five dollars a month, I may try it. I would like to customize my wake word. I have a lot of names for my Alexa’s… unfortunately I can’t share any of them here. 😂
One of the things I want to know is it going to be like the bloody AI they're using on the quest where it has no memory. If they're making us pay $10 a month it should have memory so that we can customize the AI to behave in a certain way that suits us and be able to give it a custom name as a few examples. I literally played around for like 20 minutes with the AI on the quest only to find out anything you customize is immediately forgotten as soon as you close the program
I have no idea what this quest is. This will be like using the voice mode of an LLM (ChatGPT, Gimini, Claude) except it will be via Alexa and integrated so it can control devices and such. Probably not much customization. But hell I pay $20 a month for Claude right now and it isn't integrated.
@@Me__Myself__and__I I want to be able to treat the AI more like a human being and have it be aware and remember of some details about me like knowing my name during our interactions without me having to program that in every time I use it. The AI referring to me by name as an example when we're talking and understanding things like verbal courtesy. Even chat gbt40 right now is really crap when it comes to that I can't remember this I don't know that I'm an AI language model I'm not allowed to do that and so on. They lobotomized it pretty heavy at one point and still haven't gone back and fixed it. I like the idea of not having to use the Wake word Alexa as an example. I want to be able to give the AI a custom wake word to make it feel more personable and I want to be able to talk back and forth with it more like I'm talking to a person and less like I'm talking to the computer on Star Trek. Right now the best options I have are computer and Ziggy as alternate wake words. Honestly would really love if the thing was able to swear but I know they're not going to do that unfortunately. I'd love to be able to do stuff like say good morning honey how are you feeling today and have the unit respond in at least a remotely human manner. Even if it's cracking a joke about me calling it honey. I've done stuff like this playing around with the meta AI on the quest headset unfortunately it only has a memory window of about three or four minutes it doesn't have any kind of memory storage
@@peterparker6584 I 100% agree on the custom wake word, I hate the standard choices. Regarding the AIs remembering your name and such I'd guess probably not but maybe with Alexa. The thing is the LLMs start over from a blank slate each time. But technically Alexa does know who its users are so just maybe they might do that. But I wouldn't expect too much more. LLMs are capable of a lot currently but to make them practical and keep the costs down they are standardized.
I feel so burnt by Amazon with the constant ads they added to the Echo Show devices, it's going take a lot to get me to trust them again. For a while I could go into the settings and turn off the new SPAM categories but at some point they'd show up even when they were all set to off. Really pissed me off. If they wanted to sell ad supported versions like the did with the Kindle that's fine. I ended up trashing them and have been pretty happy with the Google displays.
I would pay extra if Alexa had image recognition. Like if Alexa could tell me what kind of spider I had in my house or if a plant outside is poison ivy.
Thanks for the update. Poor Amazon is not making enough money! Cry me a river. It seems to me the new AI features are what I would expect as standard with the product. I think they can survive any monetary loss, not that I believe they are or would lose a dime.
The shift from Amazon's own AI to Claude by Anthropic highlights the growing importance of specialized AI in enhancing user experiences. It’ll be interesting to see how this impacts the smart assistant market.
Claude was considered a supercomputer back in the late 1980s... it use to be only for military and research purposes... crazy how now Claude is being commercialized
This is one of the best AI channels out there. Personally, I'm going to wait to see what the benefits are. If it raises my life quality meaningfully, it will be worth the investment, as far as I am concerned. But I will need to first see what I get more that I don't get now.
Paid subscriptions seems like a déjà vu with the streaming services where everyone wants to charge a subscription. The difference with streaming is the content varies between the streaming companies whereas AI may not, I will not pay for a more intelligent Alexa that I cannot carry around with me.
Why? I pay for Claude. If you do then you know how good it is. Alexa frustrates the hell out of me daily because it is so dumb. At $5 or even $10 a month to get Claude level ability that would be vastly better. Or maybe you rarely use your Alexa devices?
This is actual AI that you can have conversations with, ask complex question to, etc. It will be vastly more capable than Alexa. Basically if Alexa were a toddler Claude would be a teenager. It will be very similar to ChatGPT4. Btw it costs $20 a month to access Claude right now directly through Anthropic so sounds like this will be a deal. Also, this will cost Amazon a lot more money to run than Alexa, LLMs require expensive specialized server hardware and are power hungry.
@@jaredlalalmaybe but still, why do companies always feel the need to grow, it‘s insane! I mean after I buy a house, or maybe 2 houses or 3 houses and 5 cars, what else do you want? I mean at some point the have more money than they will ever spend, its insane
I’m not sure it makes sense to put this behind a pay wall. How will people ever see what they are missing? Surely better to make it part of prime and make sales over updated devices.
LLMs are very expensive to run, it will cost them much more than Alexa. How will people know? This is basically the same thing as Chat GPT4. Also you can sign up for Claude directly to find out but that costs $20 per month and they have lots of subscribers (and Amazon will offer it for less i tegrated into Alexa).
Undecided. I’m guessing other AI avatars (Siri, Google) of similar or higher caliber will be offered for free as part of another package subscription. In other words, since I spend an enormous amount of money on Amazon already, that service should not cost an additional amount. And to say that Amazon doesn’t make (enough) money from Alexa is suspect: Alexa facilitates purchases right from Prime, and those millions of dollars must be calculated as such.
It should be included in Amazon Prime but the basic free Alexa itself needs upgraded itself, otherwise it will soon look archaic. Amazon is in a bind, they are already having to pay out to Anthropic for access to Claude.
I want a split in hardware and software vendors and I want full control over my AI assistant including the collected personal data. Just the fact that I can't hear a audio stream with my old Alexa without forced commercial interruptions is a complete no go. I was able to listen to uninterrupted music streams f-ing 20 years ago, but nowadays big corporations want to stand in my freedom or have me pay regularly for no reason? No way! F Amazon, Google, Apple and sadly nowadays even Windows!
I own multiple Alexa units and I would definitely not pay a monthly subscription to use any of them once I've already purchased the expensive units...my cellphone is is good enough for that Ai stuff..so good luck to them
privacy is out of the window once you are using a smart phone or connecting to the internet, and people will pay for the best service. Tell us more about the Asian AI development, Chinese and Japanese "I don't think these are just sitting there with their PS5s lol". Thanks a lot for the great feeds, and keep up the good work 👍👍
Amazon: $10 Me: no Amazon: ok, how about $5 Me: no! Amazon: how about tree fiddy Me: dammit Amazon, I work for my money. I ain't givin you no tree fiddy.
No, Alexa is not the same as Claude AI. They are distinct technologies developed by different companies for different purposes: 1. **Alexa**: - Developed by Amazon. - It is a voice-controlled virtual assistant primarily designed for smart home control, playing music, setting reminders, answering questions, and other daily tasks. - Alexa operates on Amazon's proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning systems. 2. **Claude AI**: - Developed by Anthropic. - It is a large language model designed for natural language understanding and generation, similar to OpenAI's GPT models. - Claude is focused on providing conversational AI capabilities, often used in customer service, content generation, and other applications requiring advanced text processing. While both Alexa and Claude AI utilize artificial intelligence, they serve different roles and are created by different companies.
Not sure if you heard what he was saying properly - nobody said that Alexa was Claude, he is saying that Amazon is planning on using Claude to power their own new 'Alexa AI' service. At any rate, the way they are planning on going about it is a horrible idea. Considering most people with an already existing Alexa device subscribe to Amazon Prime *and/or* are likely to have a subscription to an LLM service as well, they aren't likely to want to pay for another subscription in order to have their Alexa device upgraded. They should be including the upgrade as a Prime Subscription perk, or enable API access for those already subscribe to Anthropic.
Unfortunatly for Amazon, that ship has already sailed. Whilst AI companies have been developing this kind of technology, Amazon has been too busy redeveloping their speakers, that they forgot to innovate during this process, hence why a majority of these speakers are discovered in secondhand electronic retailers, because they were more of a novelty factor for its consumers. Its going to take a miracle for Amazon to encourage subscribers to pay for what exactly? They should have innovated, whilst delivering their new range of speakers to keep them in the market, but sadly, consumers are not confident in their products anymore and certainly not prepared to pay for this kind of technology, which they have been lagging for so long. RIP alexa/claude AI.
For everyone who says they won't pay. Do you use and like your Alexa? Amazon will probably shut down Alexa in the future if it keeps losing them money. So instead of being so quick to say no here, you should hope this venture succeeds at turning a profit.
Its not really an update, its a new service. Alexa was never a true AI this will be. And LLMs are expensive to run so they can't give it away for free.
According to Reuter's News, Amazon will upgrade your Echo to either a basic AI for free, or you can opt into a more advanced subscription version for a monthly fee. I will not pay for it as I only use it to turn on lights.
Personally, I think Amazon should roll Claude AI into their prime services instead of charging an extra cost for advancing their AI services. Why should people pay more for something that they have been receiving for free in the past. I think this is a really bad move for Amazon to make. Amazon's cost for their prime services has increased exponentially over the past years anyway, this move may be seen in a bad light especially when their Alexa AI is tied to profits made on their sails of products and services.
The smart thing for Amazon to do is to offer this service free for a year or 6 months. All new tech has glitches, why should i pay for being a beta tester to a product that i feel wont be working well 100% or at least 95% at a time.
I wont be paying for this. It is a great upgrade and Id probably buy a new device for it but a monthly charge for it is to much. And with Microsoft and Apple doing the same thing, Im guessing amazon will lose market share because of the charge.
I don’t want to have conversations with Alexa. And I don’t think I would ask need to ask Alexa what I should take on a trip. The whole thing sounds like a solution in search of a problem.
I wish I hadn't bought my echos that I have know aside from always struggling with Alexa to understand or carry out commands the echos are very glitchy the experience is not very seamless it can be very stressful as they all have lots of glitches, waste of money I was better off with Alexa app ony phone. I don't really care if they upgrade the AI - I would not pay for it! The stupid stands for echos cost just as much as the actual echos
By offloading AI, it will be a heck of a lot easier to meet their ESG, carbon neutrality goals. AI datacenters are going to be really hard to power green.
Nope, I am about to cancel my prime subscription. It doesn't even have any value anymore. Removed the music to another subscription, and now they added ads to the movies and TV shows. NO VALUE already
No Ai for kids without monitoring by parents or guardians for common sense sake. And most devices have their own basic memory from coffee machines to ovens.
There are so many AI that are free, why should we pay? Amazon took away the 2-day shipping so subscribers are already missing out on the main reason for having Prime. Why not make this free as part of the membership? Amazon just continues with the disappointments.
Nobody wants Alexa to chat with, and they’re not gonna after this. They want to use Alexa as a smart home assistant, and, if Google Assistant -> Gemini is any indication, LLMs are terrible at that for now. - And a huge part of assistants is proactive actions. For example, you want an assistant to know you have an appointment coming up and suggest actions. - This isn’t gonna do that, without a bunch of services they bolt on. And they are sure not gonna invest in those
This is a useless move I believe because we have chat GPT and we don't need more lol Chat GPT is so much more convenient... And much more sophisticated than Alexa probably will ever dream of being... Also Amazon has absolutely proven itself not to be trustworthy on so many levels so I wouldn't even dream of going there and as I can see ...many agree
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is usually more impressive and better than ChatGPT at this stage. Also, why do you trust ChatGPT with your data, when there is a NSA director part of the board? Blessings
Yes think it might become obsolete something like Sony Walkmans etc . Won’t pay for it as far too many other options , devices doing the same. I might be wrong .
No I don't think that you should have a new high cost Alexa whatever you call it let's just keep the old one and find other ways to improve and monetize it I agree with that idea
If it's included with prime then this is great. If they expect a subscription then I'm not interested. Why would anyone consider an Alexa ai subscription over one made by Google or Apple? Alexa is only useful in the home or in the Amazon shopping app. Google/apple ai will be integrated into mobile and available anywhere I am so they have more value. People buy Amazon devices because they are good deals, not because they are the best devices. Why would people looking to save money want to spend subscription money on something like an ai assistant? I don't many people would be willing to pay for this. Their only chance is to bundle this into Amazon prime.
Making it paid is good. Making the internet free incentivized an advertising revenue model that incentivized societal brain washing. Paying for services directly is better. This still has a direct incentive to gather data on you, so it sucks imo, but good for those that want to.
No thank you. I've already disconnected all the Alexa's in the house except the Fire that runs my TV, which is useless when the TV is off due to it's use of the TV speaker to talk to me. Don't want "smart" things in the house, don't want something watching me and anticipating my actions, and definitely don't want another subscription.
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We purchased Alexa as a "smart assistant" and it's been pretty much just meh. Why should we be paying more for something we should have had all along?
Because for me was it logical that someday a better software will be available and its ok for me to switch every 5-7 years the devices.
You purchased it and you kept it, while it’s been pretty meh. They could’ve released it with new hardware but didn’t. AI isn’t free to provide.
Just stick with your old Alexa, which I passed on for being meh myself
@@HenkHeidstra I understand AI isn't "free" to provide - I run small LLM's and various AI on my home lab servers, however, a huge juggernaut like Amazon has tremendous resources and could easily incorporate the AI into the membership price point. Of course, being a closed system the Alexa hardware cannot be (readily) flashed to work with our own LLMs (yet?). Nor does it have the GPU or tensor hardware to facilitate on-board AI, but that can all be done on the back end. So yes - I will be keeping my "dumb" Alexa assistant until something new comes along to replace it. At least I can turn off lights and get the weather. My point was this: Some of us have purchased the Alexa device in the hopes that it's functionality would have advanced and the device become an integral part of our daily routines. To some degree that has happened, but then they took those features and made them PAID features. We early adopters who bought into the Alexa Smart Assistant ecosphere have been left with a product that has barely moved the needle. Personally, I have 5 Alexa devices. Now I have to pay more to get it to where it should have evolved to over time? Would you feel the same if they stopped making tires for _your_ car?
Try "oracle of light", the Alexa skill powered by chatGPT
It’s fairly useless. Google Assistant used to be better but that’s been dumbed down too. - And Siri only integrates with a few devices. Basically, it’s 2024 and there is no good smart home assistant. Like printers, they just don’t work
Finally. As long as I don't have to pay a subscription for it
Edit: No thanks.
If your are not paying, you are the product
@@punk3900 Problem is when you are paying and you are still the product.
i have prime, bought an alexa, AND NOW ANOTHER SUBSCRIPTION?
why do people let these corpos in their home?
The edit made me laugh lolol
Pass. No more subscriptions. It never ends.
I always argue this. I wonder how much you'd be spending per month if you were to subscribe to each large company's subscription
I'll get a subscription. I don't currently pay for any subscriptions apart from the tv licence.
@@Existentialist946 You're probably one among few who isn't paying for a subscription of any kind.
Try "oracle of light", the Alexa skill powered by chatGPT
Apple, and Google will almost certainly make their next-gen voice assistants free. So, not sure why anyone would choose to pay.
I won't be paying for a "more advanced Alexa", I don't need tips on shopping, I don't need to know what to wear on a trip I'll never be able to afford because I'm being bled to death by micro-service transactions like Alexa's new AI. I don't have kids, and if I did, I'd read them bed time stories myself instead of relying on an AI to do it.
Hel to the f**k no I'm all ready paying enough for prime. This is typical Amazon money grabbing tactics
And here you are on the internet which you never needed 😂
Try "oracle of light", the Alexa skill powered by chatGPT
If you did want these features, you’d subscribe to ChatGPT and not Alexa anyway.
I would not pay for it, I just use Alexa to set timers ; reminders and ask the weather lol it would be hard to get people to buy something that has been free for many years and works well, plus I use Claude already as a single app,
Your gona end up with Alexa boomer🤣🤣🤣
It costs to run the servers that process cloud based ai requests, so sadly until the hardware improves alot more so more of it can be done locally on device, there will be subscriptions that personally I'd never get into.
@@lightkeeper609 Are you calling them a boomer, or the old version of Alexa a boomer?
People who already bought an Alexa-capable device and use it without a subscription are mostly people who also have Amazon Prime - nobody is going to want to pay for both Prime and another subscription - especially when they already subscribe to a more advanced LLM model somewhere.
If you already subscribe to an Anthropic service OR Amazon Prime, you should get to use at least a 'basic-functionality' version of this with it.
They already screwed up once in the AI space, won't be too surprised to see them do it again. XD
@@NickDrinksWater Oh, Alexa? Isn't it just the pinnacle of high-tech wizardry?
It's a revolutionary device designed to perform groundbreaking tasks like turning your lights on and off, setting alarms, and occasionally stumbling through incredibly complex questions like “What's the weather?” It’s like having a personal assistant who’s great at flipping switches but not much else.
But hey, if you’re looking for a bit more sophistication, there are other alternatives out there, like Nest, Samsung SmartThings, Sonos, Yonomi, etc. that offer a little more pizzazz and functionality. Because clearly, asking Alexa what the weather is like or setting a timer for your pasta is the pinnacle of tech evolution.
Subscriptions are for technology that has true value, Alexa is just a dumb gimmick.
@@Atreyuwu Amazon prime is for deliveries and TV programmes, not for AI. Amazon already lose shedloads of money by providing the Alexa service for free. You (and many others) are suggesting that Amazon should invest loads of money into vastly improving Alexa and make it for free so they lose yet more money? Ludicrous!
Prime membership is finally starting to find its limits
Found its limit when they added ads to their shows
I'm prime now and the money I spend with Amazon now is embarrassing.
NO I won't pay anymore Audible and music are enough extra
Amazon is ALREADY an extremely profitable business, and AI should be an improvement they are making without demanding any more money from the customers. A 'good' business instead of a greedy one would always simply use 'some' of the profits to continuously improve the service.
Amazon is alredy rich enough. If someone already has an Alexa device this should be free of cost.
Seriously, right. When is enough, enough? How many billions does Bezos really need?
Try "oracle of light", the Alexa skill powered by chatGPT
If it's not part of my prime membership, im not paying extra. Let's add to the fact that you're not going to be able to use your existing alexa devices. You would need new ones that work with the new AI.
Not a software update? Surely it's all cloud based no?
Why the heck should it be part of a prime membership when that is a completely different thing? I don't want to pay for cr@ppy TV programmes when I want an enhanced Alexa! And no new devices are required the last I heard.
It should be free, especially if you pay for Prime.
AI Assistant also called an AI Virtual Assistant, is software powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that responds to inquiries in human-like languages in text or voice format. [Aisera]
Consumers will interact with voice assistants on over 8.4 billion devices by 2024. 3:19
Claude is a next generation AI assistant built by Anthropic and trained to be safe, accurate, and secure to help you do your best work. [Claude]
AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030. [PwC] 0:49
AI agents are autonomous intelligent systems that perform specific tasks without human intervention.
It’ll depend on what the new Claude addition brings to Alexa. I.e. there’s a lot of value in paying for ChatGPT’s 4o, so if Anthropic is able to deliver a model that can provide real value to Amazon’s Alexa, then I would definitely consider paying for it.
Ah finally someone who understands! I subscribe to both Chat GPT and Claude. Claude 3.5 sonet (their latest) was actually better than Chat GPT 4 and then OpenAI released 4O which is just slightly better than Claude. So they are roughly equivelant. I haven't used Claude voice mode so not sure if its fully on par with 4O (aka acting like an excitable girl) or not. But I pay $20 a month for Claude so better believe I'll order this ASAP, particularly if it is only $5 or $10 a month.
Claude is a better conversational model which is how it would be used.
I use ChatGPT most of the time, but also subscribe to Claude. I think this is a good move. I doubt I subscribe.
@@KevinRank It would be a good move if they were to include the new subscription with Amazon Prime and opened up API access so you can use their AI with an LLM of your choice (I wouldn't even mind if they locked it down to Anthropic API, so long as you could bring you utilize your already existing subscription).
Most people who own an existing Alexa device already have an Amazon Prime subscription and a good deal are already subscribed to a given LLM - and as much as us 'AI enthusiasts' may be willing to shell out some extra cash for the use of multiple models, I don't think most people who are already paying for Prime and/or an LLM will want to.
I'll definitely be giving it a try
I’d definitely want to demo it, would consider paying for it if it worked well
If Amazon ditches the sponsored ads with the new paid remarkable Alexa they will have a winning combo. A lot of people are getting annoyed with the ads screens. Maybe that’s their strategy ad ads so people will pay to remove them and upgrade the service.. Genius.
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnett is top-of-the-line
No, Claude and its owner company Anthropic are not related to Alexa or Amazon. Anthropic is an independent artificial intelligence research company, separate from Amazon or any of its subsidiaries.
Amazon develops Alexa, their own virtual assistant, while Anthropic created me (Claude) as a separate AI assistant. The two companies and their respective AI assistants are entirely distinct and unaffiliated with each other.
The advanced features promised with the paid version sounds interesting. I look forward to trying it out. For all the naysayers, I would suggest Amazon offer the "Remarkable Alexa" for a free 10-day test drive, and allow us to create our own wake words (Like "J.A.R.V.I.S.) and voices to differentiate the product from the free Classic Version. I believe this will improve the chances for adoption, and subscriptions.
Good suggestions. Have you used Claude? I subscribe to it currently ($20/month) and it is about as good as Chat GPT 4O. I haven't used Claude's voice mode but I expect it is decent.
@@Me__Myself__and__I - Pi is my AI of choice, however it doesn't offer an API for development. The most flexible AI product I have used recently is Character AI on Android, and you can develop your own AI, with parameters, a still image, and you can even upload a voice sample to use as well...and best of all it is free! I would recommend giving that one a try.
If it’s five dollars a month, I may try it. I would like to customize my wake word. I have a lot of names for my Alexa’s… unfortunately I can’t share any of them here. 😂
@@alanbuckley8116 "Killjoy..."
Should offer no wake word option for those who live by themselves.
Yes. Bring it. If it saves me only 30 mins in one year it paid for itself.
One of the things I want to know is it going to be like the bloody AI they're using on the quest where it has no memory. If they're making us pay $10 a month it should have memory so that we can customize the AI to behave in a certain way that suits us and be able to give it a custom name as a few examples. I literally played around for like 20 minutes with the AI on the quest only to find out anything you customize is immediately forgotten as soon as you close the program
I have no idea what this quest is. This will be like using the voice mode of an LLM (ChatGPT, Gimini, Claude) except it will be via Alexa and integrated so it can control devices and such. Probably not much customization. But hell I pay $20 a month for Claude right now and it isn't integrated.
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Quest = Llama is an open weights model
Alexa = Anthropic Claude is frontier model
@@Me__Myself__and__I I want to be able to treat the AI more like a human being and have it be aware and remember of some details about me like knowing my name during our interactions without me having to program that in every time I use it. The AI referring to me by name as an example when we're talking and understanding things like verbal courtesy. Even chat gbt40 right now is really crap when it comes to that I can't remember this I don't know that I'm an AI language model I'm not allowed to do that and so on. They lobotomized it pretty heavy at one point and still haven't gone back and fixed it. I like the idea of not having to use the Wake word Alexa as an example. I want to be able to give the AI a custom wake word to make it feel more personable and I want to be able to talk back and forth with it more like I'm talking to a person and less like I'm talking to the computer on Star Trek. Right now the best options I have are computer and Ziggy as alternate wake words. Honestly would really love if the thing was able to swear but I know they're not going to do that unfortunately. I'd love to be able to do stuff like say good morning honey how are you feeling today and have the unit respond in at least a remotely human manner. Even if it's cracking a joke about me calling it honey. I've done stuff like this playing around with the meta AI on the quest headset unfortunately it only has a memory window of about three or four minutes it doesn't have any kind of memory storage
@@peterparker6584 I 100% agree on the custom wake word, I hate the standard choices. Regarding the AIs remembering your name and such I'd guess probably not but maybe with Alexa. The thing is the LLMs start over from a blank slate each time. But technically Alexa does know who its users are so just maybe they might do that. But I wouldn't expect too much more. LLMs are capable of a lot currently but to make them practical and keep the costs down they are standardized.
I feel so burnt by Amazon with the constant ads they added to the Echo Show devices, it's going take a lot to get me to trust them again. For a while I could go into the settings and turn off the new SPAM categories but at some point they'd show up even when they were all set to off. Really pissed me off. If they wanted to sell ad supported versions like the did with the Kindle that's fine. I ended up trashing them and have been pretty happy with the Google displays.
I would pay extra if Alexa had image recognition. Like if Alexa could tell me what kind of spider I had in my house or if a plant outside is poison ivy.
Thanks for the update. Poor Amazon is not making enough money! Cry me a river. It seems to me the new AI features are what I would expect as standard with the product. I think they can survive any monetary loss, not that I believe they are or would lose a dime.
If the ebooks from Amazon would be better synchronized with audiobooks I would be using their services...
I have a mic, a speaker and a 12GB gpu. All I need is the software and glue to make my own. I already have an Anthropic api account.
The shift from Amazon's own AI to Claude by Anthropic highlights the growing importance of specialized AI in enhancing user experiences. It’ll be interesting to see how this impacts the smart assistant market.
Ideally they should pay us for sharing our soooo much private stuff to train their experimental AI
Correct
Claude was considered a supercomputer back in the late 1980s... it use to be only for military and research purposes... crazy how now Claude is being commercialized
This is one of the best AI channels out there. Personally, I'm going to wait to see what the benefits are. If it raises my life quality meaningfully, it will be worth the investment, as far as I am concerned. But I will need to first see what I get more that I don't get now.
Paid subscriptions seems like a déjà vu with the streaming services where everyone wants to charge a subscription. The difference with streaming is the content varies between the streaming companies whereas AI may not, I will not pay for a more intelligent Alexa that I cannot carry around with me.
Would only pay it if I could use the same account for Claude Pro in my PC
Why? I pay for Claude. If you do then you know how good it is. Alexa frustrates the hell out of me daily because it is so dumb. At $5 or even $10 a month to get Claude level ability that would be vastly better. Or maybe you rarely use your Alexa devices?
OpenAI made chat gpt with subscription, so why not having Alexa boosted with Claude by subs?
You will pay for it anyway buying Amazon products.
How much money does Amazon need? When is enough enough for that monopoly?
I know it's "complicated " but I hear they technically lose money, but gain it elsewhere or something. Don't quote me on that tho
They just need money printing machines and plates. I won't pay extra for this shit.
This is actual AI that you can have conversations with, ask complex question to, etc. It will be vastly more capable than Alexa. Basically if Alexa were a toddler Claude would be a teenager. It will be very similar to ChatGPT4. Btw it costs $20 a month to access Claude right now directly through Anthropic so sounds like this will be a deal. Also, this will cost Amazon a lot more money to run than Alexa, LLMs require expensive specialized server hardware and are power hungry.
@@jaredlalalmaybe but still, why do companies always feel the need to grow, it‘s insane! I mean after I buy a house, or maybe 2 houses or 3 houses and 5 cars, what else do you want? I mean at some point the have more money than they will ever spend, its insane
Is it available yet
Threw out my Alexa devices over a year ago along with Prime, and I have not seen my life degraded one bit.
My mom got rid of her Alexa because she was afraid it was listening in to the house...
She is absolutely right. Of course her phone is listening to her too, which is less fixable.
It depends on how much it would change my life for the better.
I’m not sure it makes sense to put this behind a pay wall. How will people ever see what they are missing? Surely better to make it part of prime and make sales over updated devices.
LLMs are very expensive to run, it will cost them much more than Alexa. How will people know? This is basically the same thing as Chat GPT4. Also you can sign up for Claude directly to find out but that costs $20 per month and they have lots of subscribers (and Amazon will offer it for less i tegrated into Alexa).
Undecided. I’m guessing other AI avatars (Siri, Google) of similar or higher caliber will be offered for free as part of another package subscription. In other words, since I spend an enormous amount of money on Amazon already, that service should not cost an additional amount.
And to say that Amazon doesn’t make (enough) money from Alexa is suspect: Alexa facilitates purchases right from Prime, and those millions of dollars must be calculated as such.
It should be included in Amazon Prime but the basic free Alexa itself needs upgraded itself, otherwise it will soon look archaic. Amazon is in a bind, they are already having to pay out to Anthropic for access to Claude.
No more money. I have also Amazon Prime
If I'm going to pay extra for AI it's not going to be for Alexa. I rather pay for Grok or Chat.
FYI Claude is better than Gemini & Grok and about equal to Chat GPT 4O.
I want a split in hardware and software vendors and I want full control over my AI assistant including the collected personal data.
Just the fact that I can't hear a audio stream with my old Alexa without forced commercial interruptions is a complete no go. I was able to listen to uninterrupted music streams f-ing 20 years ago, but nowadays big corporations want to stand in my freedom or have me pay regularly for no reason? No way! F Amazon, Google, Apple and sadly nowadays even Windows!
I pay them too much now!! I throw them away before I pay more.
I own multiple Alexa units and I would definitely not pay a monthly subscription to use any of them once I've already purchased the expensive units...my cellphone is is good enough for that Ai stuff..so good luck to them
privacy is out of the window once you are using a smart phone or connecting to the internet, and people will pay for the best service. Tell us more about the Asian AI development, Chinese and Japanese "I don't think these are just sitting there with their PS5s lol".
Thanks a lot for the great feeds, and keep up the good work 👍👍
When do i get Anna de Armas?
If they decide to make it part of prime, then they will surely increase prime annual costs.
It adds the “buy now” algorithm on top of Alexa
Amazon: $10
Me: no
Amazon: ok, how about $5
Me: no!
Amazon: how about tree fiddy
Me: dammit Amazon, I work for my money. I ain't givin you no tree fiddy.
Not interested in subscription services. 😂😂😂😂
No, Alexa is not the same as Claude AI. They are distinct technologies developed by different companies for different purposes:
1. **Alexa**:
- Developed by Amazon.
- It is a voice-controlled virtual assistant primarily designed for smart home control, playing music, setting reminders, answering questions, and other daily tasks.
- Alexa operates on Amazon's proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning systems.
2. **Claude AI**:
- Developed by Anthropic.
- It is a large language model designed for natural language understanding and generation, similar to OpenAI's GPT models.
- Claude is focused on providing conversational AI capabilities, often used in customer service, content generation, and other applications requiring advanced text processing.
While both Alexa and Claude AI utilize artificial intelligence, they serve different roles and are created by different companies.
Not sure if you heard what he was saying properly - nobody said that Alexa was Claude, he is saying that Amazon is planning on using Claude to power their own new 'Alexa AI' service.
At any rate, the way they are planning on going about it is a horrible idea. Considering most people with an already existing Alexa device subscribe to Amazon Prime *and/or* are likely to have a subscription to an LLM service as well, they aren't likely to want to pay for another subscription in order to have their Alexa device upgraded.
They should be including the upgrade as a Prime Subscription perk, or enable API access for those already subscribe to Anthropic.
Watch the video and try to understand it before arguing on something that no one except you said.
This behavior is called "straw man" i believe.
Who on earth claimed they are the same?
Unfortunatly for Amazon, that ship has already sailed. Whilst AI companies have been developing this kind of technology, Amazon has been too busy redeveloping their speakers, that they forgot to innovate during this process, hence why a majority of these speakers are discovered in secondhand electronic retailers, because they were more of a novelty factor for its consumers.
Its going to take a miracle for Amazon to encourage subscribers to pay for what exactly? They should have innovated, whilst delivering their new range of speakers to keep them in the market, but sadly, consumers are not confident in their products anymore and certainly not prepared to pay for this kind of technology, which they have been lagging for so long. RIP alexa/claude AI.
"open the pod bay door Alexa". "Give me $7.99 first"
So revolutionary! A new name! Wow!
For everyone who says they won't pay. Do you use and like your Alexa? Amazon will probably shut down Alexa in the future if it keeps losing them money. So instead of being so quick to say no here, you should hope this venture succeeds at turning a profit.
Is that a per device subscription or a per home?
Knowing Amazon, I think we can guess
alexa has balls and a deeper voice now
Why pay more for an update?
Its not really an update, its a new service. Alexa was never a true AI this will be. And LLMs are expensive to run so they can't give it away for free.
The Alexa service has been "free", because it was supposed to drive sales. So I'm supposed to pay extra for it to not say "I didn't get that"?
According to Reuter's News, Amazon will upgrade your Echo to either a basic AI for free, or you can opt into a more advanced subscription version for a monthly fee. I will not pay for it as I only use it to turn on lights.
Personally, I think Amazon should roll Claude AI into their prime services instead of charging an extra cost for advancing their AI services. Why should people pay more for something that they have been receiving for free in the past. I think this is a really bad move for Amazon to make. Amazon's cost for their prime services has increased exponentially over the past years anyway, this move may be seen in a bad light especially when their Alexa AI is tied to profits made on their sails of products and services.
If it like the AI system that was in the movie Atlas on Netflix, I would definitely pay
The smart thing for Amazon to do is to offer this service free for a year or 6 months. All new tech has glitches, why should i pay for being a beta tester to a product that i feel wont be working well 100% or at least 95% at a time.
I wont be paying for this. It is a great upgrade and Id probably buy a new device for it but a monthly charge for it is to much. And with Microsoft and Apple doing the same thing, Im guessing amazon will lose market share because of the charge.
Please, for the love of all things good, stop saying her name. I can’t watch the video without her chiming in each time she hears her name.
I don’t want to have conversations with Alexa. And I don’t think I would ask need to ask Alexa what I should take on a trip. The whole thing sounds like a solution in search of a problem.
will check out from Amanzon in my home after this info!!!
I would love it paying or not 😊
What if we pay for claude allready
I wish I hadn't bought my echos that I have know aside from always struggling with Alexa to understand or carry out commands the echos are very glitchy the experience is not very seamless it can be very stressful as they all have lots of glitches, waste of money I was better off with Alexa app ony phone. I don't really care if they upgrade the AI - I would not pay for it! The stupid stands for echos cost just as much as the actual echos
It's like everything, if it helps with our daily lives, saves us time and just over all surviving issues, I would pay for it. 😎
By offloading AI, it will be a heck of a lot easier to meet their ESG, carbon neutrality goals. AI datacenters are going to be really hard to power green.
Nope, I am about to cancel my prime subscription. It doesn't even have any value anymore. Removed the music to another subscription, and now they added ads to the movies and TV shows. NO VALUE already
Todos os países deveriam se juntar e ir contra a ideia de que devemos pagar para ter uma IA mais avançada. Isso não se faz com os usuários.
Nope. No more subscriptions. I’m being subscriptioned to death. This should be an automatic upgrade.
No Ai for kids without monitoring by parents or guardians for common sense sake. And most devices have their own basic memory from coffee machines to ovens.
There are so many AI that are free, why should we pay? Amazon took away the 2-day shipping so subscribers are already missing out on the main reason for having Prime. Why not make this free as part of the membership? Amazon just continues with the disappointments.
Nobody wants Alexa to chat with, and they’re not gonna after this. They want to use Alexa as a smart home assistant, and, if Google Assistant -> Gemini is any indication, LLMs are terrible at that for now. - And a huge part of assistants is proactive actions. For example, you want an assistant to know you have an appointment coming up and suggest actions. - This isn’t gonna do that, without a bunch of services they bolt on. And they are sure not gonna invest in those
5,- USD would be fair enough to pay the energy.
I pay five dollars, but I will never pay $10 a month
This is a useless move I believe because we have chat GPT and we don't need more lol Chat GPT is so much more convenient... And much more sophisticated than Alexa probably will ever dream of being... Also Amazon has absolutely proven itself not to be trustworthy on so many levels so I wouldn't even dream of going there and as I can see ...many agree
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is usually more impressive and better than ChatGPT at this stage. Also, why do you trust ChatGPT with your data, when there is a NSA director part of the board? Blessings
I dont see it on Amazon yet so we will see
Yes think it might become obsolete something like Sony Walkmans etc . Won’t pay for it as far too many other options , devices doing the same. I might be wrong .
No I don't think that you should have a new high cost Alexa whatever you call it let's just keep the old one and find other ways to improve and monetize it I agree with that idea
If it's included with prime then this is great. If they expect a subscription then I'm not interested. Why would anyone consider an Alexa ai subscription over one made by Google or Apple? Alexa is only useful in the home or in the Amazon shopping app. Google/apple ai will be integrated into mobile and available anywhere I am so they have more value. People buy Amazon devices because they are good deals, not because they are the best devices. Why would people looking to save money want to spend subscription money on something like an ai assistant? I don't many people would be willing to pay for this. Their only chance is to bundle this into Amazon prime.
I pay five bucks, but no more as I'm already paying $20 a month for check GTP and $20 a month for Gemini
Hard pass. They were already charging more for prime. Unbunling from prime is a huge mistake when prime is already an escalating expense.
Alexa loves Kamala harris, in Amazon A. I have feelings and emotions well done Jeff Bezos ego!
I love Alexa. ❤❤❤❤❤I can't wait .🎉🎉🎉🎉
Rage against the machine learning.
This sounds like a hedge. Amazon knows this won't sell great. Amazon knows sell shovels don't pan for gold.
I would pay $5 bucks to try it
I personally don’t see the problem with this at all
If that could be possible where Iive, I would gladly pay 10 dollars.
Making it paid is good. Making the internet free incentivized an advertising revenue model that incentivized societal brain washing. Paying for services directly is better. This still has a direct incentive to gather data on you, so it sucks imo, but good for those that want to.
No thank you. I've already disconnected all the Alexa's in the house except the Fire that runs my TV, which is useless when the TV is off due to it's use of the TV speaker to talk to me. Don't want "smart" things in the house, don't want something watching me and anticipating my actions, and definitely don't want another subscription.
For sure not playing for it. 😅
Omg, 6 or 7 seconds! What ever shall we do? Lmao. I won't be paying a subscription fee for an Ai assistant.
I like Claude AI for the most part👍🏼
... Can't stand Alexa!🤷🏼 😂
Alexa is now integrating Claude AI, enhancing its capabilities with advanced conversational intelligence. This update leverages Claude AI’s sophisticated language models to offer more nuanced and context-aware interactions. Smythos provides detailed insights and resources to explore how this integration can optimize your AI-driven applications.