[echelon]

It's the opposite of what AWS is doing, but not what Amazon as a whole is doing. There was a recent article that said they're considering cost-cutting in the Alexa business unit [1].

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-learns-a-new-...

[labradore]

Does it seriously take 10k people to make Alexa? And she's way dumber than Google. Yes, they should be cutting some costs.

[logicchains]

Maybe it's one of those many-if-statements style AIs.

[rumanator]

We prefer to call them decision trees. It sounds far fancier.