Introduced in 2016, the Alexa Prize is a first-of-its-kind opportunity, bringing together top academic talent from multiple universities, guided by Amazon ...

Since first being announced in 2014, Alexa has continuously become more natural, knowledgeable, conversational, context-aware, and capable of self-learning. ...

A year ago, Amazon and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $20 million collaboration to fund academic research on fairness in AI over a ...

The Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge is a competition for university students dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational AI. The competition ...

Virtual adversarial training (VAT) is a way to improve machine learning systems by creating difficult-to-classify training examples through the addition of ...

Today we announced the public beta launch of Alexa Conversations dialogue management. Alexa developers can now leverage a state-of-the-art dialogue manager ...

At the Alexa Live event today, Nedim Fresko, vice president of Alexa Devices and Developers, said Amazon is now using deep neural networks to improve ...

Amazon today announced that the team from Emory University is the winner of the 2020 Alexa Prize.“Congratulations to the team from Emory for their ...

On August 27, Daniel Marcu, a director in the Alexa AI organization, joined Jeff Blankenburg on Alexa & Friends to discuss the current state of natural ...

Amazon’s Global Media and Entertainment (GME) organization is creating a future of entertainment ...