During Amazon's September 2023 demo, then-outgoing Amazon hardware lead David Lamb (who has since been replaced by ex-Microsoft exec Panos Panay) led the new Alexa in a free-flowing conversation, with Alexa smoothly keeping up its end of the chat while throwing in an emotive lilt largely absent from the "old" Alexa. This "remarkable" Alexa (as it's been called within Amazon) will even be able to spot non-verbal emotional queues with help from the cameras and other sensors in Echo devices, Amazon says. But the AI-powered Alexa promises to be more than just a chatbot, with Amazon touting its ability to control smart-home devices, create smart routines, remember your previous conversations and preferences, or compose notes to send to friends and family. There's also been chatter of other possible new-Alexa features, including "AI-generated summaries of news articles," recipe-finding functionality, and an AI chatbot for kids.