Amazon’s Alexa AI is insanely cool, and while the folks over in Seattle have been doing a tremendous job at making their virtual assistant smarter and smarter since its initial release, it still isn’t quite perfect. One of the biggest disadvantages that the Alexa platform has faced since its inception has been its inability to understand follow-up questions.
This sort of contextual awareness is something that Google has been rocking for years, and it’s a big selling point for Google Home. Being able to say “Ok, Google, how old is Tom Cruise?” and then follow up with “Ok, Google, how old is he?” and having Google’s AI understand who “he” is in that question really is quite fantastic.
