Amazon Announces Q, an AI Chatbot for Businesses (cnbc.com) 37
Amazon on Tuesday announced a new chatbot called Q for people to use at work. From a report: The product, announced at Amazon Web Services' Reinvent conference in Las Vegas, represents Amazon's latest effort to challenge Microsoft and Google in productivity software. It comes one year after Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI launched its ChatGPT chatbot, which has popularized generative artificial intelligence for crafting human-like text in response to a few lines of human input.
A tier for business users will cost $20 per person per month. A version with additional features for developers and IT workers will cost $25 per person per month. The Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Duet AI for Google Workspace for business workers both cost $30 per person per month. Initially, Q can help people understand the capabilities of AWS and trouble-shoot issues. People will be able to talk with it in communication apps such as Salesforce's Slack and software developers' text-editing applications, Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS, said onstage at Reinvent. It will also appear in AWS' online Management Console. Q can provide citations of documents to back up its chat responses. The tool can automatically make changes to source code so developers have less work to do, Selipsky said. The service will be able to connect to more than 40 enterprise systems, he said.
A tier for business users will cost $20 per person per month. A version with additional features for developers and IT workers will cost $25 per person per month. The Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Duet AI for Google Workspace for business workers both cost $30 per person per month. Initially, Q can help people understand the capabilities of AWS and trouble-shoot issues. People will be able to talk with it in communication apps such as Salesforce's Slack and software developers' text-editing applications, Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS, said onstage at Reinvent. It will also appear in AWS' online Management Console. Q can provide citations of documents to back up its chat responses. The tool can automatically make changes to source code so developers have less work to do, Selipsky said. The service will be able to connect to more than 40 enterprise systems, he said.
Q? (Score:2)
I wonder why not Q*
Re:Q? (Score:4, Funny)
Obviously they need to compete with the utter brilliance that is the name 'X'.
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The real reason is that they will have a new way to collect information about companies.
If you run a company - don't use this or if you use it feed it a lot of garbage questions.
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It's basically known as 'The Cool S', a stylized version of the letter made up of straight lines instead of the usual smooth curve.
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If you were a Star Trek : TNG fan, you'd realize that Q is the omnipotent being who knows everything and can make anything happy.
So Q makes more sense than just X ... after all geeks probably named the service.
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If you were a Star Trek : TNG fan, you'd realize that Q is the omnipotent being who knows everything and can make anything happy.
So Q makes more sense than just X ... after all geeks probably named the service.
Ya, but wasn't he also kind of a dick? Is that really what Amazon ... -- oh, wait ... :-)
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The passive-aggressive mockery of my hobbies (or lack thereof) based entirely on a single one-line Slashdot comment amuses me greatly.
No, the other Q (Score:2)
There's only one Q [fandom.com]
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"Q is the omnipotent being who knows everything and can make anything happy."
But greatly prefers trolling them. Yes, very appropriate.
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Q as in Q Anonymous?
Great. Some people will take it as an absolute truth generator, and others will dismiss it as a conspiracy bot.
Wow. I wonder how much Amazon pays the marketing guy to come up with this stuff.
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"Q as in Q Anonymous?"
That's a fork.
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+1
How annoying? (Score:5, Funny)
How annoying will this Q be? I mean there is bound to be a starship captain it would want to mess with.
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How annoying will this Q be? I mean there is bound to be a starship captain it would want to mess with.
Oh do grow up 007.
Obligatory Star Trek reference .. (Score:5, Funny)
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Stop trying to make up your own Lore.
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No, this Q does a nice line of exploding wristwatches and custom car modifications.
Que the Q-Anon and STNG "Q" Jokes (Score:2)
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Why would we ignore The Federation of Associations?
Pretty fly..... (Score:2)
Cost? (Score:3)
Apparently our guys told Microsoft Copilot didn't offer us any value so we wouldn't pay for it so they bundled it into some other stuff we license at no extra cost.
It'll only be the little guys who pay $30 per month per user for that stuff.
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What, that MSFT will bundle in software with a licensing deal for free?
That's actually very true.
Re: Cost? (Score:1)
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Dude, I just got off a stint working with MSFT Federal for 5 years. I was there for the negotiations and would be responsible for the invoicing. We would give shit away all the time to the customers. One was getting Datacenter for the price of regular server and we'd throw in other crap as a cherry on top to get the regular licensing revenue. What is the lie here?
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Everyone who has it is getting it for free right now. They haven't even settled on a list price.
And now the Borg have found us (Score:2)
Sounds about right (Score:2)
Amazon's naming of products has always irked me. Like, ok it's an "Echo" device but you talk to "Alexa" on it. Everyone just started calling it Alexa.
And now something that couldn't POSSIBLY be mistaken with anything else already, say, politically speaking. Or maybe cleaning my ears speaking.