
Ep. 254 - Alexa Disappoints, Tesla Self Drives, and Hurricane Addendum
The Local Maximum with Max Sklar
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Amazon Alexa
I think the subscription model makes sense also with the subscription model There can be less focus on ads and less focus on data mining for ads Which we were hoping to do with the Alexa like oh, this person is searching for x y and z Maybe now we can target them with ads. Once someone finds value out of their Assistant they'll be willing to pay a certain amount uh to amazon monthly even a small amount So over time it pays for these devices and finally it pays for engineering teams. I want to talk about my work with google talk because I had a chatbot marsbot that was text message based. It would tell you when you're near some place That's good and um that
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