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Amazon is in a great market position to implement GPT-3 (or GPT-3-like AI) in Echos. I would pay a considerable premium on these assistants if Amazon could adapt their current features to the new generation of language models in useful ways.

The wealth of knowledge that language models like these have is fantastic. Although as Meta's Galactica has demonstrated, you can't just slap an input box on a pre-trained model and ship it. It needs to be much more integrated with useful services, and robust with fact-checking. But a company like Amazon should not have problems doing both (and more) if they would commit to it.

It's so sad to read about the mismanagement of this technology in the article. They have a tremendous stake in the world of AI assistants and I wish Amazon were more optimistic about the technology. Perhaps a conversational AI assistant could drive revenues itself (without the need of complex monetization).