Five university teams were selected recently to compete in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4 (SGC4) finals. This year’s winners will be determined ...
Amazon has announced a new research challenge titled Knowledge-Grounded Task-Oriented Dialogue Modeling on Spoken Conversations, which aims to improve the ...
The Czech Republic captured four gold medals at the 2021 summer Olympics in Japan, quite a feat for the Central European country with a population of just ...
Earlier today, the Alquist team from Czech Technical University learned it had been awarded the $500,000 first-prize purse in the Alexa Prize SocialBot ...
Recently, AI models that can engage in open-domain dialogue have made a lot of progress — the top finishers in the Alexa Prize challenge, for instance.But ...
In June, one of us (Prem) wrote a blog post for Amazon Science arguing that Alexa, and more generally, the field of AI, is entering a new “age of self” in ...
Through smart-home devices and systems, customers can already instruct Alexa to do things like open garage doors, turn lights on and off, or start the ...
As the world has become more connected, and computing has permeated our surroundings, a new AI paradigm is emerging: ambient intelligence. In this paradigm, ...
A. To begin with, Alexa already exhibits common sense in a number of areas. For example, if you say to Alexa, “Set a reminder for the Super Bowl”, Alexa not ...
The annual meeting of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) introduced an industry track in 2018, and at this ...