Amazon Alexa creator believes most companies are getting AI wrong

William Tunstall-Pedoe, the brains behind Amazon's voice assistant Alexa, has expressed concern that many firms attempting to incorporate AI into their operations are failing, as reported by City AM.

"Pretty much every medium and large business out there is trying to bring AI into their business," he disclosed to City AM. "But a lot of these projects are failing, and the reason why they're failing is because the [machine learning] ML piece doesn't work well enough."

"It isn't trustworthy enough, goes wrong every now and then in a way that potentially costs money or is outside of regulatory requirements, or is brand damaging," he further added.

After selling his voice assistant startup, Evi Technologies, to Amazon i