Published 16:02 IST, November 18th 2019

Alexa amuses Patrick Stewart, says 'Captain Picard is my favourite'

Amazon's founder and CEO Jeff Bezos shared a video of him dropping in at the team which writes jokes for the company's AI, Alexa with actor Sir Patrick Stewart.

Reported by: Aanchal Nigam
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Amazon's founder and CEO Jeff Bezos shared a video of him dropping in at team which writes jokes for company's artificial intelligence, Alexa with English actor Sir Patrick Stewart. Alexa gets her Star Trek moment when Stewart, who is famous for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek series, asks her about best captain. To humor 29-year-old actor, Alexa replies saying, 'Of all captains in all galaxies, Captain Picard is my favourite'. In clip posted by Bezos, he earlier talks about how team at Amazon is trying to enhance ir AI with more 'personality' and a 'sense of humour'. 

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Amazon Alexa is multilingual

As far as content is concerned, this would be varied – viz Panchatantra stories, dialogues of Bollywood, jokes, music, and more. However, a major USP of PDA is its ability to control homes in case se are smart. This includes likes of Alexa being used to dim lights at home. To have this new multilingual mode up and running, a software update is required to bring Alexa closer to speaking Hindi and English almost flawlessly. In fact, seeking Alexa’s help to have her multi-lingual mode set up is ar good idea to implement.  

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If you think that your Alexa is rey to go bilingual, do try asking her current temperature, traffic conditions, or even wear outside. se need to be in both English and Hindi – on a random basis. Finally, it should definitely do Amazon a world of good in case Alexa is me proficient with all classical langus of India.  In related news, Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale is slated to begin from 13 October.

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