\u201cAlexa, make me smile\u201d- is only one of the multiple requests one\ncan make to Amazon\u2019s echo assistant. In the present date, one can command\nmultiple instructions to Amazon\u2019s Alexa. These can range from normal requests\nsuch as \u201cAlexa, tell me the weather forecast for today\u201d to eccentric food and\ndrink recommendations like \u00a0“Alexa, ask what beer goes with ramen\u201d. There is one word that constantly reappears\nwhen describing the rise of the virtual assistant: ubiquitous. It came out of\nthe blue, and suddenly it was everywhere. The first Alexa was launched in November\n2014, and from then until 2017, it has sold around 20 million devices.\nCompetitors such as the Google Assistant have started to make significant\nappearances, and Apple has started to leave its footprint. Needless to say, the\nhome pods are under heavy demand. The virtual assistant market was valued at $627\nmillion in 2015 and is projected to reach a value of $7.9 billion by 2024 . Given\nthe large sales figures and increasing valuations, one can conclude that this\ntechnology is forecasted to become a commodity in a relative future. Therefore,\nit is important to consider that its widespread adoption could have potential\nimplications on our own human development. How will kids change the way they\nlearn their communication skills when they grow up talking to an algorithm? How\nwill small businesses grow when humans start to rely more and more on gatekeeping\nrecommendation systems? How much will we depend on these assistants when trying\u00a0 to make a choice, whether it\u2019s buying a new\nhouse or buying next week\u2019s groceries? \u00a0These\nare all questions worth exploring in order to see who are the winners and the\nlosers, and will help shed light on who are the players pushing the growth agenda\nfor Alexa and her friends. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cAlexa, make me smile\u201d- is only one of the multiple requests one can make to Amazon\u2019s echo assistant. In the present date, one can command multiple instructions to Amazon\u2019s Alexa. These can range from normal requests such as \u201cAlexa, tell me the weather forecast for today\u201d to eccentric food and drink recommendations like \u00a0“Alexa, ask …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commtech.nyuad.im\/homework\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}