According to a report in Business Insider Thursday, the secret new Alexa barely works thanks to hallucinating AI and broken tech.
Click here to read the story at gizmodo.com.
Discussion Questions:
- What is a business model?
- What types of business typically feature a subscription-based business model?
- Why might subscription revenue be important to Amazon?
- Why would they want consumers to pay for Alexa?
- Do you think Amazon customers would be willing to pay for Alexa “Plus” services? Why or why not?
- According to information from this news story, there is some debate internally at Amazon whether a paid version of Alexa is a good idea. What do you think?
- What is leadership?
- How does the internal debate at Amazon demonstrate the importance of leadership?
- Why has the project been delayed so far, according to this story?
- What is product testing?
- Why do businesses test products and services before a wider release?
- According to this story, how many customers are currently testing the upgraded version of Alexa?
- How might their feedback influence how Amazon decides to move forward with this project?