Is Alexa AI or machine learning?

 

Is Alexa AI or machine learning?

The digital voice assistants Alexa and Siri from Amazon and Apple are much more than just practical tools; they are extremely concrete examples of artificial intelligence, which is becoming an increasingly important part of our daily lives. For computer scientists, deciphering and replicating the extremely complicated writing and speaking processes that people take for granted has been a problem. Artificial intelligence technologies that are becoming more sophisticated at natural language production and processing take in data, process it, and then produce natural language that mimics what a human would actually say or write.

Machine learning is an application of artificial intelligence in which data is made available to machines so they can learn from it as opposed to having to be trained by humans to think and act in certain ways regarding the data. Every time Alexa or Siri responds incorrectly to your request, they learn from the error and utilize that information to react more accurately the next time. 

If a mistake was made, it uses that information to make improvements. The system also records if the reaction was favorable. The microphone on the device you are using records your request when you speak to Alexa or Siri. This recording is uploaded to the cloud over the internet.