Earlier this year, at Amazon’s re:MARS conference, Alexa head scientist Rohit Prasad unveiled Alexa Conversations, a new service that allows Alexa skill developers to more easily integrate conversational elements into their skills. The announcement is an indicator of the next stage in Alexa’s evolution: more-natural, dialogue-based engagements that enable Alexa to aggregate data and refine requests to better meet customer needs.Read More
Episode 6: AI for everyone
Hannah investigates the more human side of the technology, some ethical issues around how it is developed and used, and the efforts to create a future of AI that works for everyone.Read More
How to Make Neural Language Models Practical for Speech Recognition
An automatic-speech-recognition system — such as Alexa’s — converts speech into text, and one of its key components is its language model. Given a sequence of words, the language model computes the probability that any given word is the next one. For instance, a language model would predict that a sentence that begins “Toni Morrison won the Nobel” is more likely to conclude “Prize” than “dries”. Language models can thus help decide between competing interpretations of the same acoustic information.Read More
Episode 5: Out of the lab
Hannah Fry meets the scientists building systems that could be used to save the sight of thousands; help us solve one of the most fundamental problems in biology, and reduce energy consumption in an effort to combat climate change.Read More
Neural TTS Makes Speech Synthesizers More Versatile
A text-to-speech system, which converts written text into synthesized speech, is what allows Alexa to respond verbally to requests or commands…Read More
Advancing AI: A Conversation with Jeff Clune, Senior Research Manager at Uber
The past few months have been a whirlwind for Jeff Clune, Senior Research Manager at Uber and a founding member of Uber AI Labs. In June 2019, research by him and his collaborators on POET, an algorithm …
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Episode 4: AI, Robot
Forget what sci-fi has told you about superintelligent robots that are uncannily human-like; the reality is more prosaic. Inside DeepMinds robotics laboratory, Hannah explores what researchers call embodied AI.Read More
Episode 3: Life is like a game
Video games have become a favourite tool for AI researchers to test the abilities of their systems. Why?Read More
Episode 2: Go to Zero
The story of AlphaGo, first computer program to defeat a professional human player at the game of Go, a milestone considered a decade ahead of its time.Read More
Episode 1: AI and neuroscience – The virtuous circle
What can the human brain teach us about AI? And what can AI teach us about our own intelligence?Read More