Have you ever noticed something most virtual assistants have in common? They all started out female.
One of the most famous, Amazon’s Alexa, got her name because of CEO Jeff Bezos’ preference. “The idea was creating the Star Trek computer. The Star Trek computer was a woman,” says Alex Spinelli, who ran the team that created the software for Alexa.
Spinelli is now the chief technology officer of LivePerson. His boss, CEO Robert LoCascio, is bothered by that story about Alexa.
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