From Echo to Alexa, the connected smart home may soon be a reality

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At its annual fall product launch event, Amazon showed off several new hardware products, as well as an enhanced Alexa digital assistant and smart home control software updates.

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At its annual fall product launch event, Amazon showed off several new hardware products, as well as an enhanced Alexa digital assistant and smart home control software updates.

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By opening the Alexa Mobile app and then simply pointing your iPhone’s camera at the various rooms in your home the lidar feature automatically scans and then builds out a map of all the objects in your room.

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Amazon also enhanced its Alexa digital assistant with some of the same kind of generative AI features that we’ve seen in tools like ChatGPT. The technology is based on Amazon’s own Bedrock large language models.

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