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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Raphael Boyd

‘What does AI mean?’: Amazon reveals UK’s most asked Alexa questions of 2024

A fourth generation Amazon Echo Dot showing outside temperature
Some of the most common questions asked Amazon’s virtual assistant this year were slightly leftfield, such as ‘who was Henry VIII married to?’ Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian

Virtual assistant units have become a staple in many UK households, telling people whether it is expected to rain, what the time is, and what the result in the football was.

Among the most common used is Alexa, whose parent company Amazon has released the top questions and requests given to the software during 2024. Some were ones you would expect: “What is the value of bitcoin?”; “what is the population of earth?”; and “what does AI mean?”.

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