Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Much more would you get done with a personal assistant in your pocket? Life's too short to be like manually filing insurance claims and like being on hold waiting for like the lab tests that the you know that the doctor did. Like I don't know, I feel like it's allowing me to show up in ways that I've always wished I could show up. I just I'm so strapped for time. What we gain and give up when AI agents enter the picture. That's this week on Explain It To Me.

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