The e-commerce giant has announced the beta version rollout of a crowdsourced Q&A platform in December. The goal is to enhance Alexa’s ability to answer questions, which, to some extent, falls short of its rival, Google Assistant.
According to Amazon, the feature is named Alexa Answers. The company also says that in order to outperform Google’s Knowledge Graph, it has decided to ramp up Amazon’s databases via outsourcing the answers to an invite-only community. The process received great support from those pre....