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Millions of Gen Z are jobless yet ghosting employers. Phone anxiety is to blame—and experts say voice notes are the cure

Telephobia could cost Gen Z their dream job. Just ask the bosses at Amazon, GHD and Disney. Experts say voice notes are the training wheels the next generation of workers need.

Fortune

Amazon AI exec’s top career advice is always pick up your phone—it’s a disaster for Gen Z who have telephobia

Ignoring unknown callers could be costing millions of unemployed Gen Z their big break. Take it from Amazon’s AI exec Rohit Prasad.

Fortune

Amazon’s AI boss reveals the make-or-break trait that decides whether you get hired—and it can't be faked, rehearsed, or tested for

“If you're not genuine, you won't do well in an Amazon interview,” the tech giant’s AI chief warns—and both Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy have said the same.

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Amazon Alexa is getting a refresh on February 26

A new AI-packed take on Alexa may be revealed later this month.

Evening Standard

Amazon AGI lead says "several technical hurdles" delay revamped Alexa release: "Hallucinations have to be close to zero"

Amazon is reportedly encountering "several technical hurdles," including hallucinations, seemingly preventing it from shipping the revamped Alexa to broad availability.

Windows Central

Amazon's upcoming Alexa AI brain transplant might make you use it for more than just weather and timers

Amazon plans an AI revamp for Alexa.

TechRadar

No PhD necessary to build with AI, Amazon’s AGI boss says

“The bar to build with AI has suddenly reduced,” Rohit Prasad said at Fortune’s Brainstorm AI conference this week in San Francisco.

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Fortune Brainstorm AI showed companies are growing skeptical about hyped-up promises

Companies using AI are moving beyond FOMO to ROI—and other lessons from Fortune Brainstorm AI.

Fortune

Amazon’s top AI exec says industry concerns that LLMs have ‘hit a wall’ are overblown. Says Jeff Bezos ‘very involved’ in AI efforts

Speaking at Fortune’s Brainstorm AI conference in San Francisco, Amazon SVP and head of Artificial General Intelligence Rohit Prasad dismissed concerns about the industry’s feared “AI wall.”

Fortune

Amazon is making its own AI power play with new Nova models

Amazon is betting that offering AI models of similar capability to others but at a lower price will be the key to winning marketshare

Fortune

Expert suggests humans will be uploading deceased loved ones to computers by 2024

"There is a 100% chance that they will live with you forever"

Irish Mirror

Humans will be able to 'live on' after death by creating 'twin' by 2050, predicts expert

Dr Ajaz Ali predicts that our loved ones who pass away will continue to exist in a digital form thanks to Artificial Intelligence ‘capturing’ their looks and personality

Daily Mirror

Amazon's new invention could let you "speak" to the dead — but should it?

Amazon, Microsoft, and other tech giants are circling closer to digital immortality.

Inverse

Speak to the dead: Amazon Alexa to use the voice of your lost loved ones

An upcoming update to Alexa will allow users to teach the device to speak using the voice of anyone they want, Amazon has announced.

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AI can bring you the voice of dead loved ones. But is this a good thing?

The concept of using AI to seemingly revive the dead is not new. But would you want to use this technology? And would it help your grieving process?

Daily Mirror

Alexa to speak in the voice of dead relatives 'to make memories last', Amazon says

Amazon has already developed voice synthesising tech to let Alexa mimic the voices of celebrities, but these have required an individual to record dozens of hours of audio

Chronicle Live

Amazon Alexa could mimic voices of dead family members 'to make memories last'

The new technology would need about a minute of recorded audio to be fed into the system, which would then be used to construct a whole voice

Daily Record

Amazon Alexa could use voices of dead loved ones 'to make memories last'

The technology will see Alexa mimicking the voice of anyone it hears.

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Amazon's Alexa could soon speak in a dead relative's voice, making some feel uneasy

Amazon's voice-cloning technology still under development raises concerns among those who study ethics in artificial intelligence.

Mic

Amazon’s Alexa will soon speak to you in your dead grandma’s voice, if that’s a thing you want

The company unveiled the new experimental feature this week, despite no evidence people asked for this.

Wales Online

Amazon Alexa could use voices of the dead 'to make memories last'

The company said its voice assistant will be able to channel dead people and speak as they would in a forthcoming update

Input

Amazon's plan to have Alexa deepfake dead relatives is worse than it sounds

It's hard to fully capture something so brazenly boundary-crossing, but we're going to try our best.

The Independent UK

Amazon's Alexa could soon mimic voice of dead relatives

Amazon’s Alexa might soon replicate the voice of family members - even if they’re dead

The Guardian - UK

Amazon’s Alexa could turn dead loved ones’ voices into digital assistant

Technology promises ability to ‘make the memories last’ by mimicking the voice of anyone it hears

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