Allen Firstenberg and Mark Tucker, hosts of Two Voice Devs, reflect on the year 2023, discussing significant changes and trends in the #VoiceFirst and #GenerativeAI industry and where their predictions from last year were accurate... or fell short. They discuss the transformation and challenges Amazon faced, gleaning predictions from hints at large language models (LLMs) from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. They also mention the shift of Voiceflow towards LLMs and recall the notion of retrieval augmented generation.
00:04 Introduction and Welcome
00:12 Reflecting on the Past Year
01:13 Amazon's Progress and Challenges
01:59 Exploring Amazon's Monetization and Widgets
08:45 Google's Journey and the End of Conversational Actions
11:53 The Rise of Large Language Models (LLMs)
17:04 The Impact of Voiceflow and Dialogflow
20:48 Closing Remarks and New Year Wishes