Inside the Story: BYU team trying to improve Amazon's Alexa technology @danrascon4545

Uploaded May 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

PROVO, Utah — (KUTV) A team at Brigham Young University is part of a worldwide competition to take Amazon's Alexa technology to a whole new level of artificial intelligence.

It's called Project Eve.

The BYU team in the computer science department is trying to develop code and algorithms to get Alexa to do much more than answer basic questions.

They want to build software to get Alexa to carry on a conversation, just like a human would.

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