Personal Assistant Systems
Dating burnout: meet the people who ditched the apps โ and found love offline
When Georgie Thorogood's date made a sleazy joke about "horsey girls carrying whips", she knew it was time to make a hasty exit. After meeting Tom through a dating app in the summer of 2021, she had been hoping for some polite conversation over a few drinks, maybe some romantic chemistry if she was lucky. What she got was a two-hour rant about his ex-wife and some creepy innuendo. "I knew straight away he wasn't for me. I politely told him I didn't want to see him again, but he took the rejection really badly. I work in music communications and at the time I was setting up a festival. He started getting aggressive and telling me that I was destined to fail," she says.
The future of artificial intelligence: Elon Musk's new robot assistant โ The Engineering of Conscious Experience
Musk actually said that he intended to eventually make them available for a LOWER price than the more established robotics manufacturers. Like around 20 K. Which is a pretty good price in comparison, IF he can match their functionality, programming and quality. He's a late starter and a new comer into the humanoid robotics industry, so we shall see. There might be at least one low priced competitor off of the field. With all often recent political upsets regarding the security of survielliance electronics,, Xiaomi's Cyber one might not be allowed for export into the US. It hasn't been banned specifically.
A Comparative Analysis of Bias Amplification in Graph Neural Network Approaches for Recommender Systems
Chizari, Nikzad, Shoeibi, Niloufar, Moreno-Garcรญa, Marรญa N.
Recommender Systems (RSs) are used to provide users with personalized item recommendations and help them overcome the problem of information overload. Currently, recommendation methods based on deep learning are gaining ground over traditional methods such as matrix factorization due to their ability to represent the complex relationships between users and items and to incorporate additional information. The fact that these data have a graph structure and the greater capability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn from these structures has led to their successful incorporation into recommender systems. However, the bias amplification issue needs to be investigated while using these algorithms. Bias results in unfair decisions, which can negatively affect the company reputation and financial status due to societal disappointment and environmental harm. In this paper, we aim to comprehensively study this problem through a literature review and an analysis of the behavior against biases of different GNN-based algorithms compared to state-of-the-art methods. We also intend to explore appropriate solutions to tackle this issue with the least possible impact on the model performance.
Towards the design of user-centric strategy recommendation systems for collaborative Human-AI tasks
Dodeja, Lakshita, Tambwekar, Pradyumna, Hedlund-Botti, Erin, Gombolay, Matthew
Artificial Intelligence is being employed by humans to collaboratively solve complicated tasks for search and rescue, manufacturing, etc. Efficient teamwork can be achieved by understanding user preferences and recommending different strategies for solving the particular task to humans. Prior work has focused on personalization of recommendation systems for relatively well-understood tasks in the context of e-commerce or social networks. In this paper, we seek to understand the important factors to consider while designing user-centric strategy recommendation systems for decision-making. We conducted a human-subjects experiment (n=60) for measuring the preferences of users with different personality types towards different strategy recommendation systems. We conducted our experiment across four types of strategy recommendation modalities that have been established in prior work: (1) Single strategy recommendation, (2) Multiple similar recommendations, (3) Multiple diverse recommendations, (4) All possible strategies recommendations. While these strategy recommendation schemes have been explored independently in prior work, our study is novel in that we employ all of them simultaneously and in the context of strategy recommendations, to provide us an in-depth overview of the perception of different strategy recommendation systems. We found that certain personality traits, such as conscientiousness, notably impact the preference towards a particular type of system (p < 0.01). Finally, we report an interesting relationship between usability, alignment and perceived intelligence wherein greater perceived alignment of recommendations with one's own preferences leads to higher perceived intelligence (p < 0.01) and higher usability (p < 0.01).
Reusable Self-Attention Recommender Systems in Fashion Industry Applications
Celikik, Marjan, Wasilewski, Jacek, Ramallo, Ana Peleteiro
A large number of empirical studies on applying self-attention models in the domain of recommender systems are based on offline evaluation and metrics computed on standardized datasets. Moreover, many of them do not consider side information such as item and customer metadata although deep-learning recommenders live up to their full potential only when numerous features of heterogeneous type are included. Also, normally the model is used only for a single use case. Due to these shortcomings, even if relevant, previous works are not always representative of their actual effectiveness in real-world industry applications. In this talk, we contribute to bridging this gap by presenting live experimental results demonstrating improvements in user retention of up to 30\%. Moreover, we share our learnings and challenges from building a re-usable and configurable recommender system for various applications from the fashion industry. In particular, we focus on fashion inspiration use-cases, such as outfit ranking, outfit recommendation and real-time personalized outfit generation.
ActSafe: Predicting Violations of Medical Temporal Constraints for Medication Adherence
Seegmiller, Parker, Gatto, Joseph, Mamun, Abdullah, Ghasemzadeh, Hassan, Cook, Diane, Stankovic, John, Preum, Sarah Masud
Prescription medications often impose temporal constraints on regular health behaviors (RHBs) of patients, e.g., eating before taking medication. Violations of such medical temporal constraints (MTCs) can result in adverse effects. Detecting and predicting such violations before they occur can help alert the patient. We formulate the problem of modeling MTCs and develop a proof-of-concept solution, ActSafe, to predict violations of MTCs well ahead of time. ActSafe utilizes a context-free grammar based approach for extracting and mapping MTCs from patient education materials. It also addresses the challenges of accurately predicting RHBs central to MTCs (e.g., medication intake). Our novel behavior prediction model, HERBERT , utilizes a basis vectorization of time series that is generalizable across temporal scale and duration of behaviors, explicitly capturing the dependency between temporally collocated behaviors. Based on evaluation using a real-world RHB dataset collected from 28 patients in uncontrolled environments, HERBERT outperforms baseline models with an average of 51% reduction in root mean square error. Based on an evaluation involving patients with chronic conditions, ActSafe can predict MTC violations a day ahead of time with an average F1 score of 0.86.
Online Filtering over Expanding Graphs
Data processing tasks over graphs couple the data residing over the nodes with the topology through graph signal processing tools. Graph filters are one such prominent tool, having been used in applications such as denoising, interpolation, and classification. However, they are mainly used on fixed graphs although many networks grow in practice, with nodes continually attaching to the topology. Re-training the filter every time a new node attaches is computationally demanding; hence an online learning solution that adapts to the evolving graph is needed. We propose an online update of the filter, based on the principles of online machine learning. To update the filter, we perform online gradient descent, which has a provable regret bound with respect to the filter computed offline. We show the performance of our method for signal interpolation at the incoming nodes. Numerical results on synthetic and graph-based recommender systems show that the proposed approach compares well to the offline baseline filter while outperforming competitive approaches. These findings lay the foundation for efficient filtering over expanding graphs.
Top 16 Artificial Intelligence Applications: 14 Uses of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is hailed as the disruptive technology that is set to revolutionize the 21st century. The function and popularity of this technology are soaring by the day. It has the potential to solve many of humanity's most pressing problems. AI is an umbrella term for technologies that can display some kind of intelligence such as machine learning computer vision, natural language processing, etcโฆ These intelligent agents are algorithms trained using vast amounts of data to give machines some kind of reasoning ability. Instead of purely logical processing that computers usually perform, intelligent agents are designed around human thinking patterns and problem-solving skills. Artificial intelligence technologies create intelligent systems capable of self-learning and adapting to any new challenge. These specification has led to the rapid adoption of AI across different fields and industries around the world. Artificial intelligence has been around for decades, but its applications are only now opening up as more and more resources are dedicated to it. Over the last few years, AI has significantly evolved and is being extensively used in different aspects of human life and industry. Companies have begun using intelligent machines to mine data to optimize just about everything within their business operations. Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that aims to create intelligent machines that work and react like humans. It is the broad term for any device that is capable of performing a task normally restricted to human intelligence. AI combines several disciplines such as computer science, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. The concept underlying AI is to get a non-human entity to make decisions just as an intelligent human would. Artificial intelligence research is about the creation of computer systems capable of visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. So many fields are using AI nowadays, from research and home automation to data processing and analysis. The technology is used to solve problems in many different ways and it is found in many types of systems such as household appliances, automobiles, financial systems, medical applications, and many other common tools. AI has undergone rapid development over the past decades, fueled by significant research and trail-blazing technological advancements. Nowadays, it is often used to make computer programs better than humans at perception and cognition tasks. AI technologies are on an exponential level of development and are becoming so advanced that it is entering nearly every field of modern life.
Web Designing in 2023 is going to be amazing - Afro Asia News
With the ability to create new devices, platforms, and experiences on the horizon, web designers will be working hard to make sure they're at the forefront of innovation Web Designing in 2023 is going to be amazing! Technologies are going to advance and change so much, which is why it's important for web designers to stay up to date with the latest trends. Let's talk about each of these trends in more detail. In 2023, immersive design will be super important! Because most web users access the internet on their phones or tablets these days, a lot of websites are not optimized for mobile screen sizes.
Machine Learning vs Artificial Intelligence: Differences, Uses, and Limitations - The Enlightened Mindset
In recent years, advances in technology have made it possible to create machines that can perform tasks that were once thought to be impossible. Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are two of the most prominent technologies that have emerged from these developments. But what exactly are they and how do they differ? In this article, we'll explore the similarities and differences between machine learning and AI, as well as their various uses and applications. At a basic level, both machine learning and AI involve the use of computers to process data and generate insights.