Using social media data, the University of Maryland’s Philip Resnik aims to help clinicians prioritize individuals who may need immediate attention.Read More
Teaching robots to respond to natural-language commands
Technique that relies on inverse reinforcement learning, or learning by example, improves task completion rate by 14% to 17% in simulations.Read More
Alexa & Friends features Kayoko Yanagisawa, Alexa AI senior speech scientist
Yanagisawa discusses the science behind Alexa’s new bilingual Polyglot model, her career in speech research, and more.Read More
How AWS scientists help create the NFL’s Next Gen Stats
In its collaboration with the NFL, AWS contributes cloud computing technology, machine learning services, business intelligence services — and, sometimes, the expertise of its scientists.Read More
The quantum gambit
How an Amazon quantum computing scientist won the first-ever quantum chess tournament.Read More
AWS scientists coauthor 13 QIP 2021 quantum computing papers
Researchers affiliated with Amazon Web Services’ Center for Quantum Computing are presenting their work this week at the Conference on Quantum Information Processing.Read More
“Talking to the public about AI”
The University of Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge and Amazon’s Zachary Lipton on the topic of Wooldridge’s AAAI keynote — and the road ahead for AI research.Read More
English-language Alexa voice learns to speak Spanish
Neural text-to-speech enables new multilingual model to use the same voice for Spanish and English responses.Read More
Does the Turing Test pass the test of time?
Four Amazon scientists weigh in on whether the famed mathematician’s definition of artificial intelligence is still applicable, and what might surprise him most today.Read More
Columbia Center of AI Technology announces faculty research awards and two PhD student fellowships
Amazon is providing $5 million in funding over five years to support research, education, and outreach programs.Read More