$ 20 per month for AI chatbot? In this economy ??
The only surprise in Amazon’s Discovering Alex+ This week was the price. With inflation stormy and much more impactful subscription services to choose from, $ 20 a month is absolutely candy price for a still unproven AI chatbot.
Remember that Alex historically costs nothing, as long as you have had a hardware to start it. The same applies to Google Assistant (and now the basic version of Gemini) as well as to Apple’s Siri. They have always been tools for improving the hardware, not the product itself.
What is more sophisticated is that $ 20 a month I will repeat is Bonkersessentially fake – the equivalent of MsrpS And the reason why I know this is because the subscription for all the ass for Prime costs $ 5 a month lessand includes Alexa+S You can read this one of the two ways. Amazon thinks Alexa+ is worth more than the whole prime minister. Or ridiculous pricing is an artificial speed to direct people in Amazon’s ecosystem while encouraging them to buy some echo hardware while in it. Somehow a company accused of USA and Europe The fraudulent separation of customers from their money has not yet tried this trick.
In a vacuum, $ 20 for Alexa+ is aligned with some other premium AI services – Openai’s Chatgpt Plus and Google One Gemini Advanced Plan cost the same. And Amazon does something at least a little different, leaving a generative AI voice assistant to loose in your smart home, just as he did with the original Alexa. And I find the possibility of building a library of uploaded documents in the intriguing memory of Alexa+as much as I would prefer to anyone but Amazon, be the one who stores this information. But despite some potentially useful features, it is impossible to recommend spending such money on Alexa+ now, given that Amazon predicts some demonstrations to its performance and is unlikely to leave journalists to its event really try it.
I don’t think Amazon expects a lot of registrations at this price of $ 20 a month. In addition to inciting more people to register for Prime, this wild price for Alexa+ telegraphs a move to increase the price of Prime earlier than later. It was Just over two years As Amazon has increased the price of Prime, so we certainly have another outburst.
Of course, the company will indicate Prime’s “increased value” during this time and to be fair, at this point you get a lot of your dollar – if you accept that you want to continue spending more money on Amazon. And Alexa+, with his built -in ability to make a grocery list and order it through Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods, enter this frame well. Vanilla Alexa’s tendency to order regular, permanent goods from Amazon-sometime Without users to intend it – Of course, it will be transferred.
My recommendation? Given the economy, just go back to it completely. There are many services that are more fascinating or useful for your money. The extended plan of Google Gemini comes with 2TB drive storage and a handful of other bonuses. Or you can sign up for the Xbox Game Pass. Or blow your money on several video streaming services and let the #ConTent wash over you as we slide into the abyss. At least these options are not an Amazon transmission portal more than your hard -earned money.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/20-a- Month-for-an-Ai-chatbot-in-sis-conomy-150021310.html?src=sSS
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