In a factory run by Nakamatsu Meat, a small ¡°meat shop in town¡± with a 42-year history in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, a part-time employee speaks into a small monitor: ¡°Alexa, I made five cases of ham and cheese sandwiches.¡±
Alexa, an artificial-intelligence powered voice assistant from Amazon, then turns the report into data that is compiled in the firm¡¯s computer.
¡°At first, workers were a little shy about talking to a machine,¡± said Kazumi Nakamoto, the company¡¯s executive director. ¡°But now they are used to it, and they even say ¡¯Alexa, good morning.¡¯¡±
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