Alexa is finally getting a much-needed upgrade. Alexa+ promises to make Alexa much smarter, thanks to the power of AI.

Amazon has just announced its new AI-powered Alexa Plus assistant –here's a quick primer on how it works, when it'll be available and more.

But consumers primarily ended up using the Echo for tasks like setting alarms and listening ... Alexa about what happened around the house while they weren’t home, or if anyone took the dog ...

He and other company executives also said Alexa can fetch videos from Ring cameras — such as checking whether a user’s dog was walked that day — and is able to remember handwritten recipes ...