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Panos Panay

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

Got it. This expert needs to talk to that expert. Give you an example if you want it. There's nothing simple about it. It's why you haven't seen it. It's why it doesn't exist outside of videos. So the biggest thing I needed was to not do a demo, but to use the product live. Meaning you can code a demo just to be a demo. Like, you know, it's code. Like for that moment, make it look like.

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

type of quotes, but the principle was very, very clear. And this hasn't changed at Amazon, to be clear. The team's all in, like, we are gonna show the product. And that's what you saw.

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

type of quotes, but the principle was very, very clear. And this hasn't changed at Amazon, to be clear. The team's all in, like, we are gonna show the product. And that's what you saw.

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

type of quotes, but the principle was very, very clear. And this hasn't changed at Amazon, to be clear. The team's all in, like, we are gonna show the product. And that's what you saw.

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

Yeah, I think we do. Is that competitive? I think it is. I think it's hugely competitive. It's pretty easy to invoke a single API off an LL. I mean, not easy. I don't want to discount anything. But let's say the expert is a grounding expert. I'm going to ground a local info. We're in New York. I know everything about New York. I'm going to make sure this conversation stays within New York.

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

Yeah, I think we do. Is that competitive? I think it is. I think it's hugely competitive. It's pretty easy to invoke a single API off an LL. I mean, not easy. I don't want to discount anything. But let's say the expert is a grounding expert. I'm going to ground a local info. We're in New York. I know everything about New York. I'm going to make sure this conversation stays within New York.

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

Yeah, I think we do. Is that competitive? I think it is. I think it's hugely competitive. It's pretty easy to invoke a single API off an LL. I mean, not easy. I don't want to discount anything. But let's say the expert is a grounding expert. I'm going to ground a local info. We're in New York. I know everything about New York. I'm going to make sure this conversation stays within New York.

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

calling one API, make sure you're grounded.

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

calling one API, make sure you're grounded.

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

calling one API, make sure you're grounded.

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

It's just my term.

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

It's just my term.

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

It's just my term.

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

It's like if you, as a team, we talk this way. So yeah, I don't want to overstate it. I think some people call them agents. Some people call them APIs. Some people call them, I don't know, grounding to a certain experience maybe. Our challenge was it's not enough. We already have that. Yeah. I mean, it's deterministic today with Alexa, but we already have it.

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

It's like if you, as a team, we talk this way. So yeah, I don't want to overstate it. I think some people call them agents. Some people call them APIs. Some people call them, I don't know, grounding to a certain experience maybe. Our challenge was it's not enough. We already have that. Yeah. I mean, it's deterministic today with Alexa, but we already have it.

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

It's like if you, as a team, we talk this way. So yeah, I don't want to overstate it. I think some people call them agents. Some people call them APIs. Some people call them, I don't know, grounding to a certain experience maybe. Our challenge was it's not enough. We already have that. Yeah. I mean, it's deterministic today with Alexa, but we already have it.

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

And so, meaning you can call a single API at a time, but then you get frustrated because you're like, I needed more than that. Let me give you an example. It's a simple one. Let's call photos agent or photos expert or just photos app. I mean, app's a bad word because you're not opening an app. But let's just say the photos expert and the music expert are both very important to this next example.

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

And so, meaning you can call a single API at a time, but then you get frustrated because you're like, I needed more than that. Let me give you an example. It's a simple one. Let's call photos agent or photos expert or just photos app. I mean, app's a bad word because you're not opening an app. But let's just say the photos expert and the music expert are both very important to this next example.

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

And so, meaning you can call a single API at a time, but then you get frustrated because you're like, I needed more than that. Let me give you an example. It's a simple one. Let's call photos agent or photos expert or just photos app. I mean, app's a bad word because you're not opening an app. But let's just say the photos expert and the music expert are both very important to this next example.

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

The other day, I'm leaving the house. I have Alexa Plus, obviously. And I go, Alexa, do me a favor. Find all the photos of Mary, start a slideshow, and put music behind it. Okay. I just did a search command. I did a photos expert command. They have to talk to each other. He's looking for Mary. Slideshow. Got it. And then that expert has to call the music expert and basically say, play the music.