Personal Assistant Systems
Affective Recommendation System for Tourists by Using Emotion Generating Calculations
Ichimura, Takumi, Tachibana, Issei
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Jon McCormack, Former Amazon CTO joins Apple - The iBulletin
Apple has been on a hiring spree and John Giannandrea, Google's former head of search and artificial intelligence has recently joined Apple as the head of AI department. Bloomberg reports that Apple has hired Jon McCormack, former Amazon CTO as vice president for a software role. McCormack has also worked at Google as an executive in the Advanced Technology and Products group and at HP where he was the global head of software. The reports aren't that clear but Apple told Bloomberg that it has hired the former Amazon CTO. McCormack has recently changed his title on LinkedIn.
What Is AlterEgo? New MIT Device Challenges AI-Powered Devices By Reading Minds
Looks like a new technology is going to give Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri and all other digital assistants a run for their money. A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a wearable device that can read its wearer's mind. Earlier this week, MIT Media Lab published a YouTube video that introduces a device called AlterEgo. The device is worn around the right ear and it has a tail of some sort that extends all the way to the jaw area. The beauty of the system is it allows the user to converse with it without talking because communication takes place in the mind.
When Artificial Intelligence Clashes With Fashion, How Will Our Future Dresses Look?
To Stitch Fix's "hybrid design" tool, fashion design is a puzzle work of 30 to 80 pieces. On the website of online personal shopping service Stitch Fix, the company features a customer review that reads, "I love that my stylist listens to my feedback. The personal note included in my Fix shows how much pride she takes in serving each client." Stitch Fix's personal stylist is the best of its kind. Indeed, few stylists in the industry has achieved the same level of success at outfit pairing and shopping recommendation.
Can The Artificial Intelligence In Amazon's Alexa For Business Help Your Firm Dominate In The Market?
Thinking of Amazon Alexa for business will bring voice enabled artificial intelligence and the power of the cloud to businesses large and small. Amazon has launched a new effort to accelerate the use of Alexa in the workplace, including empowering the Alexa virtual assistant to help employees do things like order supplies, pull together meetings, book conference rooms, tap into corporate data as well as manage all the other functions the current Alexa can. The most powerful feature might be the ability of business users to create custom skills that leverage the data and applications of the workforce. This is new territory for Amazon, but they are wading in quickly, building partnerships with enterprise IT firms like Concur Solutions, SAP SuccessFactors, and Salesforce. So now you can ask Alexa things like "Tell me the list of opportunities for the first quarter".
Choose the right AI method for the job
It's hard to remember the days when artificial intelligence seemed like an intangible, futuristic concept. This has been decades in the making, however, and the past 90 years have seen both renaissances and winters for the field of study. At present, AI is launching a persistent infiltration into our personal lives with the rise of self-driving cars and intelligent personal assistants. In the enterprise, we likewise see AI rearing its head in adaptive marketing and cybersecurity. The rise of AI is exciting, but people often throw the term around in an attempt to win buzzword bingo, rather than to accurately reflect technological capabilities.
Apple is facing its toughest fight since the 1980s
Apple has done pretty well for itself these last few years. It's got cash in the bank, healthy revenue, and it still sets the bar for what a modern smartphone should look like. But while the iPhone is singularly important, both to Apple and to the category of devices it's inspired over the last decade, technology companies are now jockeying to usher in the next wave of personal computing. The consensus is artificial intelligence is going to be the key differentiator, with every device--whether its a lightbulb or a laptop--capable of speaking to each other and making decisions to suit their owners. Big tech firms like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are saying that they're now "AI-first companies." Artificial intelligence research and implementation is dominated by Google.
Inside AI: Technology Landscape of Artificial Intelligence
AI Clouds: Lego blocking cloud based services with developer kits, large general purpose AI companies are enabling developers to deploy algorithms via SDKs within their cloud hosted platforms. From Microsoft Azure AI platform all the way to Amazon's AWS AI Offerings, these organizations provide pre-trained models, GPUs and storage that are necessary for more effective continuous deployment, testing and quality assurance (QA). AI Languages: Beyond software applications to onboard users onto AI platforms, companies are standardizing new languages to familiarize developers to continually build using their libraries. Uber's AI Labs, for example, released their own probabilistic python offshoot programming language, Pyro. Wit.ai is another language for developers to build cross device applications.
What Siri can learn from Google Assistant
It's no secret that when it comes to voice assistants, Siri is often cited as one of the worst. Even though Apple introduced it years before Amazon and Google, their digital rivals -- Alexa and Google Assistant -- have since bested Siri in both features and performance. That's mostly because Amazon and Google have spent years pouring millions of dollars worth of research into artificial intelligence, making their assistants smarter and more capable over time. Apple is trying to catch up. Not only is it beefing up its phones with "neural engine" chips to power AI efforts like augmented reality and machine learning, it's also building out its Siri team.
Researchers develop device that can 'hear' your internal voice
Researchers have created a wearable device that can read people's minds when they use an internal voice, allowing them to control devices and ask queries without speaking. The device, called AlterEgo, can transcribe words that wearers verbalise internally but do not say out loud, using electrodes attached to the skin. "Our idea was: could we have a computing platform that's more internal, that melds human and machine in some ways and that feels like an internal extension of our own cognition?" said Arnav Kapur, who led the development of the system at MIT's Media Lab. Kapur describes the headset as an "intelligence-augmentation" or IA device, and was presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's Intelligent User Interface conference in Tokyo. It is worn around the jaw and chin, clipped over the top of the ear to hold it in place.