Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Panos Panay

👤 Speaker
678 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Like, it's pretty fascinating because, you know, this is what an LM is great at. And then the expert that we have to go rationalize. And so it doesn't have to be deterministic. And so it's pretty interesting. By the way, it has to learn as well. So if you go turn on that light, which light? That one over there. Oh, you mean the one in the living room? Yeah, okay.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Like, it's pretty fascinating because, you know, this is what an LM is great at. And then the expert that we have to go rationalize. And so it doesn't have to be deterministic. And so it's pretty interesting. By the way, it has to learn as well. So if you go turn on that light, which light? That one over there. Oh, you mean the one in the living room? Yeah, okay.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Like, it's pretty fascinating because, you know, this is what an LM is great at. And then the expert that we have to go rationalize. And so it doesn't have to be deterministic. And so it's pretty interesting. By the way, it has to learn as well. So if you go turn on that light, which light? That one over there. Oh, you mean the one in the living room? Yeah, okay.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Now, that's not a good example because you're up against a switch, which takes is just go touch the switch. But how fast the system learns, that'll never happen. It'll never happen again. It'd be like, oh, I know what he needs. He's asking on this device and he's, I got it. I know I'm turning on the light.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Now, that's not a good example because you're up against a switch, which takes is just go touch the switch. But how fast the system learns, that'll never happen. It'll never happen again. It'd be like, oh, I know what he needs. He's asking on this device and he's, I got it. I know I'm turning on the light.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Now, that's not a good example because you're up against a switch, which takes is just go touch the switch. But how fast the system learns, that'll never happen. It'll never happen again. It'd be like, oh, I know what he needs. He's asking on this device and he's, I got it. I know I'm turning on the light.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

You know, I've shown you everything, but I'll tell you like, if I can touch back to my Mary example, like I want these moments to connect not only the home, but the family. And it's got some pretty amazing attributes. The idea that I can leave the house and leave a message. And walk out the door. And then when Anastasia shows up downstairs, she gets the message.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

You know, I've shown you everything, but I'll tell you like, if I can touch back to my Mary example, like I want these moments to connect not only the home, but the family. And it's got some pretty amazing attributes. The idea that I can leave the house and leave a message. And walk out the door. And then when Anastasia shows up downstairs, she gets the message.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

You know, I've shown you everything, but I'll tell you like, if I can touch back to my Mary example, like I want these moments to connect not only the home, but the family. And it's got some pretty amazing attributes. The idea that I can leave the house and leave a message. And walk out the door. And then when Anastasia shows up downstairs, she gets the message.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And it's a lovely, like, note from her dad with maybe a direction of what to do. The fact that it's this total natural language moment feels magical. Alexa's being proactive on your command. Not intrusive, but, you know, you were asking her to be. When you start seeing those things, that's the thing. That's the thing I want it to be because...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And it's a lovely, like, note from her dad with maybe a direction of what to do. The fact that it's this total natural language moment feels magical. Alexa's being proactive on your command. Not intrusive, but, you know, you were asking her to be. When you start seeing those things, that's the thing. That's the thing I want it to be because...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And it's a lovely, like, note from her dad with maybe a direction of what to do. The fact that it's this total natural language moment feels magical. Alexa's being proactive on your command. Not intrusive, but, you know, you were asking her to be. When you start seeing those things, that's the thing. That's the thing I want it to be because...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

You're just going to connect deeper into people's lives in a way that makes it better. That you know me well enough. Like, I want you to use these products and tell me your life is better. Yeah. Like, that's it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

You're just going to connect deeper into people's lives in a way that makes it better. That you know me well enough. Like, I want you to use these products and tell me your life is better. Yeah. Like, that's it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

You're just going to connect deeper into people's lives in a way that makes it better. That you know me well enough. Like, I want you to use these products and tell me your life is better. Yeah. Like, that's it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Look, I have a vision for where this thing goes. I can't take you there. Like we've already revealed everything and we're shipping, you know, we're going to preview in a month and it's like, I'm sure we tipped over a few carts yesterday and like, you know, like, and so you're just got to be careful how far I take it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Look, I have a vision for where this thing goes. I can't take you there. Like we've already revealed everything and we're shipping, you know, we're going to preview in a month and it's like, I'm sure we tipped over a few carts yesterday and like, you know, like, and so you're just got to be careful how far I take it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Look, I have a vision for where this thing goes. I can't take you there. Like we've already revealed everything and we're shipping, you know, we're going to preview in a month and it's like, I'm sure we tipped over a few carts yesterday and like, you know, like, and so you're just got to be careful how far I take it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

There's so much for the future, but I showed you a few of my favorites and that's what we did. We narrowed it down. There's thousands of things it does now. Yeah. Try to narrow it down to the ones that were both told the story, but I also most emotional to me. Because that matters, you know, when I'm presenting and I think sharing.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

There's so much for the future, but I showed you a few of my favorites and that's what we did. We narrowed it down. There's thousands of things it does now. Yeah. Try to narrow it down to the ones that were both told the story, but I also most emotional to me. Because that matters, you know, when I'm presenting and I think sharing.