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Using Natural Language for Human-Robot Collaboration in the Real World

Lindes, Peter, Skiker, Kaoutar

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We have a vision of a day when autonomous robots can collaborate with humans as assistants in performing complex tasks in the physical world. This vision includes that the robots will have the ability to communicate with their human collaborators using language that is natural to the humans. Traditional Interactive Task Learning (ITL) systems have some of this ability, but the language they can understand is very limited. The advent of large language models (LLMs) provides an opportunity to greatly improve the language understanding of robots, yet integrating the language abilities of LLMs with robots that operate in the real physical world is a challenging problem. In this chapter we first review briefly a few commercial robot products that work closely with humans, and discuss how they could be much better collaborators with robust language abilities. We then explore how an AI system with a cognitive agent that controls a physical robot at its core, interacts with both a human and an LLM, and accumulates situational knowledge through its experiences, can be a possible approach to reach that vision. We focus on three specific challenges of having the robot understand natural language, and present a simple proof-of-concept experiment using ChatGPT for each. Finally, we discuss what it will take to turn these simple experiments into an operational system where LLM-assisted language understanding is a part of an integrated robotic assistant that uses language to collaborate with humans.


Segmenting Messy Text: Detecting Boundaries in Text Derived from Historical Newspaper Images

Anderson, Carol, Crone, Phil

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Text segmentation, the task of dividing a document into sections, is often a prerequisite for performing additional natural language processing tasks. Existing text segmentation methods have typically been developed and tested using clean, narrative-style text with segments containing distinct topics. Here we consider a challenging text segmentation task: dividing newspaper marriage announcement lists into units of one announcement each. In many cases the information is not structured into sentences, and adjacent segments are not topically distinct from each other. In addition, the text of the announcements, which is derived from images of historical newspapers via optical character recognition, contains many typographical errors. As a result, these announcements are not amenable to segmentation with existing techniques. We present a novel deep learning-based model for segmenting such text and show that it significantly outperforms an existing state-of-the-art method on our task.


Research Analyst III / Structural QA Coordinator at Verisk - Lehi, UT, United States

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We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable. Responsible for the analysis and assembly of construction related material, equipment, and labor pricing into real world estimating uses for the publication of building cost data in the United States and Canada. You will spend your time on analysis of a vast database of construction pricing including maintenance of existing items as well as creation of new items when warranted. You will also have user interaction by answering incoming emails and taking incoming phone calls from customers that have questions about the construction database.


Business Intelligence Developer I at Verisk - Lehi, UT, United States

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We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable. Our systems make it quick and easy for our over 20,000 customers to get real-time reports through one of several platforms. To learn more about iiX please visit us at: www.iix.com. We are proud to be a part of the Verisk family of companies!


Data Scientist, NLP, Summer Intern (Hybrid/Remote/Office-based) - Remote Tech Jobs

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About Ancestry:When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. We believe that by discovering the struggles and triumphs of our past, we can foster deeper bonds and more meaningful connections among families and communities. Our talented team of scientists, engineers, genealogists, historians, and…


Internationalization NLP Lead

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Our Detection team powers our core ML/AI capabilities we leverage to detect and mitigate attacks. You'll find your work on our Machine Learning team to be at the very center of Abnormal's success - giving your work incredible impact on our business and customers alike! As Abnormal expands to foregin markets, we are looking for a tech lead that owns and drives the machine learning strategy of internationalization expansion for message detection products. The key challenge here is not only extracting text signals from each foreign language for model building but also leading toward a language agnostic modeling architecture to ensure scalable and repeatable successes in near future. You'll find our team passionate about building a detection engine unparalleled in its ability to stop every attack - accurately and timely.


PCF Insurance Services Announces Appointment of Senior Leader for Marketing Science

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Jakaitis has proven success creating and scaling advanced analytics functions in insurance. Most recently, as Director of Business Intelligence for Carrot Fertility, she founded and scaled the company's data function, including overseeing full-lifecycle product management for data products, such as ROI models, engagement and utilization projections, and financial forecasting tools. Prior to that, she served as the Head of Marketing Science at Acrisure Technology Group and was a founding member of Altway Insurance, where she led a cross-functional team in go-to-market and marketing strategy for products in the insurance technology space. She also contributed industry and community thought leadership in the areas of marketing optimization, authenticity in marketing, applied AI, and algorithmic marketing. "Leah's skillsets in these areas are vital to the rapid growth of PCF as we continue to advance our use of and leverage our data and technology to inform strategy to benefit our partners and clients," said Rob Smith, President, Agency Operations.


This Small Company Is Turning Utah Into a Surveillance Panopticon

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The state of Utah has given an artificial intelligence company real-time access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and "public safety" cameras, 911 emergency systems, location data for state-owned vehicles, and other sensitive data. The company, called Banjo, says that it's combining this data with information collected from social media, satellites, and other apps, and claims its algorithms "detect anomalies" in the real world. The lofty goal of Banjo's system is to alert law enforcement of crimes as they happen. It claims it does this while somehow stripping all personal data from the system, allowing it to help cops without putting anyone's privacy at risk. As with other algorithmic crime systems, there is little public oversight or information about how, exactly, the system determines what is worth alerting cops to. In its pitches to prospective clients, Banjo promises its technology, called "Live Time Intelligence," can identify, and potentially help police solve, an incredible variety of crimes in real-time. Banjo says its AI can help police solve child kidnapping cases "in seconds," identify active shooter situations as they happen, or potentially send an alert when there's a traffic accident, airbag deployment, fire, or a car is driving the wrong way down the road. Banjo says it has "a solution for homelessness" and can help with the opioid epidemic by detecting "opioid events." It offers "artificial intelligence processing" of state-owned audio sensors that "include but may not be limited to speech recognition and natural language processing" as well as automatic scene detection, object recognition, and vehicle detection on real-time video footage pulled in from Utah's cameras.


This Small Company Is Turning Utah Into a Surveillance Panopticon

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The state of Utah has given an artificial intelligence company real-time access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and "public safety" cameras, 911 emergency systems, location data for state-owned vehicles, and other sensitive data. The company, called Banjo, says that it's combining this data with information collected from social media, satellites, and other apps, and claims its algorithms "detect anomalies" in the real world. The lofty goal of Banjo's system is to alert law enforcement of crimes as they happen. It claims it does this while somehow stripping all personal data from the system, allowing it to help cops without putting anyone's privacy at risk. As with other algorithmic crime systems, there is little public oversight or information about how, exactly, the system determines what is worth alerting cops to. In its pitches to prospective clients, Banjo promises its technology, called "Live Time Intelligence," can identify, and potentially help police solve, an incredible variety of crimes in real-time. Banjo says its AI can help police solve child kidnapping cases "in seconds," identify active shooter situations as they happen, or potentially send an alert when there's a traffic accident, airbag deployment, fire, or a car is driving the wrong way down the road. Banjo says it has "a solution for homelessness" and can help with the opioid epidemic by detecting "opioid events." It offers "artificial intelligence processing" of state-owned audio sensors that "include but may not be limited to speech recognition and natural language processing" as well as automatic scene detection, object recognition, and vehicle detection on real-time video footage pulled in from Utah's cameras.


Industry News

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Find here a listing of the latest industry news in genomics, genetics, precision medicine, and beyond. Updates are provided on a monthly basis. Sign-Up for our newsletter and never miss out on the latest news and updates. As 2019 came to an end, Veritas Genetics struggled to get funding due to concerns it had previously taken money from China. It was forced to cease US operations and is in talks with potential buyers. The GenomeAsia 100K Project announced its pilot phase with hopes to tackle the underrepresentation of non-Europeans in human genetic studies and enable genetic discoveries across Asia. Veritas Genetics, the start-up that can sequence a human genome for less than $600, ceases US operations and is in talks with potential buyers Veritas Genetics ceases US operations but will continue Veritas Europe and Latin America. It had trouble raising funding due to previous China investments and is looking to be acquired. Illumina loses DNA sequencing patents The European Patent ...