Amazon Alexa assisting NASA become smarter at work

Amazon Alexa assisting NASA become smarter at work

Washington, June 20: While you are busy giving Alexa commands to play your favourite song or book an Uber, the intelligent virtual assistant from Amazon is helping the US space agency organise daily tasks while making sense of intrinsic data-sets.

According to Tom Soderstrom, IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), voice as a platform will become the next big thing once we learn to talk to digital assistants and chatbots in a fashion we do with friends and family. "If you have Alexa-controlled Amazon Echo smart speaker at home, tell her to enable the 'NASA Mars' app. Once done, ask Alexa anything about the Red Planet and she will come back with all the right answers," Soderstrom said during the Amazon Web Services' (AWS) public sector summit here.

"This enables serverless computing where we don't need to build for scale but for real-life work cases and get the desired results in a much cheaper way. Remember that voice as a platform is poised to give 10 times faster results," Soderstrom noted on the inaugural "Earth and Space Day".

Serverless computing allows people to build and run applications and services without thinking about provision, scale and manage any servers. AWS is a marker leader in this segment, providing a set of fully-managed services to clients in the public sector, thus allowing them to focus more on product innovation. (IANS)

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