Almost a decade after their mainstream introduction, voice assistants are not where they were supposed to be.
Echo smart speakers and Alexa voice assistant account for the majority of losses Amazon suffered in 2022.
But the direct value of these interactions to Amazon appears unfavorable.
Amazon reportedly hit operating losses worth over $3 billion (1).
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared in 2016 that bots are the new apps.
Cortana, however, did not live up to the hype.
They were all dumb as a rock, Nadella told the Financial Times.
He added that voice assistants would not work, whether it was Alexa, Cortana, or Google.
The Microsoft boss can afford to be blunt with his observation.
With ChatGPTs ability to understand natural language and respond to queries, voice assistants were left looking stupid.
Whether the new Bing Search will be successful remains to be seen.
source: www.techworm.net
