{"id":76583,"date":"2019-06-06T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/2019\/06\/06\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/"},"modified":"2019-06-06T08:16:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T07:16:50","slug":"soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Alexa will plan family night outs, movie to dinner et all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Nishant Arora Las Vegas, June 6 (IANS)<\/strong> Amazon’s personal assistant Alexa will soon be able to execute a complete family night out experience where it may book the movie (and let you watch a trailer too), make a restaurant reservation and pre-book an Uber to take all of you there — all seamlessly and in a jiffy.<\/p>\n<p>At its flagship “re:Mars” event here, the company showed a brief demo and announced that in the coming months, this and other multi-skill experiences will roll out to Alexa customers, initially in the US.<\/p>\n<p>“We envision a world where customers will converse more naturally with Alexa: seamlessly transitioning between skills, asking questions, making choices, and speaking the same way they would with a friend, family member or co-worker,” Rohit Prasad, Alexa Vice President and Head Scientist, told a packed house.<\/p>\n<p>“Our objective is to shift the cognitive burden from the customer to Alexa,” Prasad added.<\/p>\n<p>Today, customer exchanges with Alexa are generally either one-shot requests, like “Alexa, what’s the weather?”, or interactions that require multiple requests to complete more complex tasks.<\/p>\n<p>An Alexa customer planning a family movie night out must interact independently with multiple skills to find a list of local theatres playing a particular movie, identify a restaurant near one of them, and then purchase movie tickets, book a table, and perhaps order a ride.<\/p>\n<p>The cognitive burden of carrying information across skills — such as time, number of people, and location — rests with the customer.<\/p>\n<p>Enabling a new experience is a set of AI modules that work together to generate responses to customers’ questions and requests.<\/p>\n<p>The new approach to multi-turn dialogue also includes a separate AI module whose task is to decide when to switch between different skills — which questions to pass to the restaurant search skill, for instance, and which to pass to the movie skill,” informed Prasad.<\/p>\n<p>“With this new approach, Alexa will predict a customer’s latent goal from the direction of the dialogue and proactively enable the conversation flow across topics and skills. This is a big leap for conversational AI,” informed Prasad.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced the developer preview of “Alexa Conversations”, a new deep learning-based approach for skill developers to create more-natural voice experiences with less effort, fewer lines of code and less training data than before.<\/p>\n<p>The preview allows skill developers to create natural, flexible dialogues within a single skill; upcoming releases will allow developers to incorporate multiple skills into a single conversation.<\/p>\n<p>“It’s way easier to build a complex voice experience with Alexa Conversations due to its underlying deep-learning-based dialog modeling,” Prasad noted.<\/p>\n<p>(Nishant Arora can be contacted at nishant.a@ians.in)<br \/>\n–IANS<br \/>\nna\/in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nishant Arora Las Vegas, June 6 (IANS) Amazon’s personal assistant Alexa will soon be able to execute a complete family night out experience where it may book the movie (and let you watch a trailer too), make a restaurant reservation and pre-book an Uber to take all of you there — all seamlessly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":74121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[12771,819,7566,1024,4064,2220,6211,1374],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Soon Alexa will plan family night outs, movie to dinner et all - News24<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Amazon&#039;s personal assistant Alexa will soon be able to execute a complete family night out experience where it may book the movie\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Soon Alexa will plan family night outs, movie to dinner et all - News24\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amazon&#039;s personal assistant Alexa will soon be able to execute a complete family night out experience where it may book the movie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News24\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-06T03:34:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-06-06T07:16:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alexa.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Amol Warankar\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amol Warankar\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Amol Warankar\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#\/schema\/person\/50ac2a43d4e83f0104747f5dda055a61\"},\"headline\":\"Soon Alexa will plan family night outs, movie to dinner et all\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-06T03:34:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-06T07:16:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/\"},\"wordCount\":462,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alexa.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Alexa\",\"Amazon\",\"customer\",\"Movie\",\"NP NEWS 24\",\"npnews24\",\"scientist\",\"US\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Science &amp; Technology\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/\",\"name\":\"Soon Alexa will plan family night outs, movie to dinner et all - News24\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alexa.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-06T03:34:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-06T07:16:50+00:00\",\"description\":\"Amazon's personal assistant Alexa will soon be able to execute a complete family night out experience where it may book the movie\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alexa.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alexa.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1\",\"width\":750,\"height\":450,\"caption\":\"Alexa\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Soon Alexa will plan family night outs, movie to dinner et all\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/\",\"name\":\"News24\",\"description\":\"Latest News Update realtime on the move\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"News24\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NPNEWS24-LOGO.png?fit=448%2C72&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NPNEWS24-LOGO.png?fit=448%2C72&ssl=1\",\"width\":448,\"height\":72,\"caption\":\"News24\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#\/schema\/person\/50ac2a43d4e83f0104747f5dda055a61\",\"name\":\"Amol Warankar\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/author\/amolwaran28\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Soon Alexa will plan family night outs, movie to dinner et all - News24","description":"Amazon's personal assistant Alexa will soon be able to execute a complete family night out experience where it may book the movie","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Soon Alexa will plan family night outs, movie to dinner et all - News24","og_description":"Amazon's personal assistant Alexa will soon be able to execute a complete family night out experience where it may book the movie","og_url":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/","og_site_name":"News24","article_published_time":"2019-06-06T03:34:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-06-06T07:16:50+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":450,"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alexa.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Amol Warankar","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Amol Warankar","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/"},"author":{"name":"Amol Warankar","@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#\/schema\/person\/50ac2a43d4e83f0104747f5dda055a61"},"headline":"Soon Alexa will plan family night outs, movie to dinner et all","datePublished":"2019-06-06T03:34:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-06T07:16:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/"},"wordCount":462,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alexa.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1","keywords":["Alexa","Amazon","customer","Movie","NP NEWS 24","npnews24","scientist","US"],"articleSection":["Science &amp; Technology"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/","url":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/","name":"Soon Alexa will plan family night outs, movie to dinner et all - News24","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alexa.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1","datePublished":"2019-06-06T03:34:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-06T07:16:50+00:00","description":"Amazon's personal assistant Alexa will soon be able to execute a complete family night out experience where it may book the movie","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alexa.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alexa.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1","width":750,"height":450,"caption":"Alexa"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/soon-alexa-will-plan-family-night-outs-movie-to-dinner-et-all\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Soon Alexa will plan family night outs, movie to dinner et all"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/","name":"News24","description":"Latest News Update realtime on the move","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#organization","name":"News24","url":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NPNEWS24-LOGO.png?fit=448%2C72&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NPNEWS24-LOGO.png?fit=448%2C72&ssl=1","width":448,"height":72,"caption":"News24"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/#\/schema\/person\/50ac2a43d4e83f0104747f5dda055a61","name":"Amol Warankar","url":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/author\/amolwaran28\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/npnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alexa.jpg?fit=750%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUEez-jVd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}