Personal Assistant Systems
Membership Inference Attacks Against Latent Factor Model
The advent of the information age has led to the problems of information overload and unclear demands. As an information filtering system, personalized recommendation systems predict users' behavior and preference for items and improves users' information acquisition efficiency. However, recommendation systems usually use highly sensitive user data for training. In this paper, we use the latent factor model as the recommender to get the list of recommended items, and we representing users from relevant items Compared with the traditional member inference against machine learning classifiers. We construct a multilayer perceptron model with two hidden layers as the attack model to complete the member inference. Moreover, a shadow recommender is established to derive the labeled training data for the attack model. The attack model is trained on the dataset generated by the shadow recommender and tested on the dataset generated by the target recommender. The experimental data show that the AUC index of our attack model can reach 0.857 on the real dataset MovieLens, which shows that the attack model has good performance.
Improve Text Classification Accuracy with Intent Information
In addition, existing text classification approaches only consider the utterances in the coarse granularity level, which In recent years, goal-oriented dialogue systems have been may less the possibility of the model to explore relationship widely applied in intelligent voice assistant, e.g., Apple Siri, between token-level information and label information. For Amazon Alexa, where intent classification technology plays a example, in Figure 1, if there is a token "When" in the crucial part. Given input utterance in natural language, the intent input sentence, then the "NUM" intent is more likely to be classification module aims to detect the user's intent [10], recognized as high correlation with it, while the "LOC" intent [11], [14], [23]. Previous works have been proposed for better does not.
COLA: Improving Conversational Recommender Systems by Collaborative Augmentation
Lin, Dongding, Wang, Jian, Li, Wenjie
Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to employ natural language conversations to suggest suitable products to users. Understanding user preferences for prospective items and learning efficient item representations are crucial for CRS. Despite various attempts, earlier studies mostly learned item representations based on individual conversations, ignoring item popularity embodied among all others. Besides, they still need support in efficiently capturing user preferences since the information reflected in a single conversation is limited. Inspired by collaborative filtering, we propose a collaborative augmentation (COLA) method to simultaneously improve both item representation learning and user preference modeling to address these issues. We construct an interactive user-item graph from all conversations, which augments item representations with user-aware information, i.e., item popularity. To improve user preference modeling, we retrieve similar conversations from the training corpus, where the involved items and attributes that reflect the user's potential interests are used to augment the user representation through gate control. Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/DongdingLin/COLA.
Building a Recommender System Using TFRS
The first part of this tutorial was about importing and cleaning the dataset. In this part, we will focus more on feature engineering, training, and evaluating the model. In the following part, we will run both the remove_repeating_subs() and build_training_sequences() functions. Note that for the sake of brevity, we won't include the code for both of these functions. The code for both functions can be found in the link below at the end of the tutorial.
Millennials' guide to AI
There is no inherent conflict between AI and millennials. In fact, millennials can benefit from the use of AI in various ways. For example, AI-powered virtual assistants, such as Siri and Alexa, can assist millennials with daily tasks like scheduling and organization, making it easier for them to manage their time and be more productive. AI can also be used to improve physical health and wellbeing, through the use of wearable fitness trackers that provide personalized feedback and suggestions. In addition, AI-powered entertainment services, such as music and video streaming platforms, can enhance millennials' enjoyment of leisure activities by recommending content based on individual preferences and interests. This can help millennials to discover new artists and genres, and make it easier for them to find and enjoy the content they love. Overall, the use of AI can provide many benefits to millennials, including improved productivity, better physical health, and enhanced entertainment experiences. There is no inherent conflict be-tween AI and millennials, and the two can work together to improve people's lives. B.B. Kobe
Honda's 2023 Accord Touring will be its first car with Google apps built-in
Honda is joining the ranks of automakers embracing Google's services. As teased last year, the company has announced that the 2023 Accord sedan's high-end Touring trim will be the brand's first car with Google built-in as standard. You'll have out-of-the-dealership access to Google Assistant, Google Maps and the Play Store on the vehicle's 12.3-inch infotainment display. You can tweak the climate control, navigate or download a favorite music app without relying on your phone. GM offers three free years of Google built-in access for vehicles like the GMC Yukon, but requires a $15 monthly subscription after that.
Alexa is listening: Make these important privacy tweaks on your Amazon Echo device now
Anytime you speak to Alexa, it records your voice and entire conversation. Amazon then stores those voice recordings forever, unless you opt to delete these in a more timely manner. If you already own an Amazon Alexa, you know how easy they make your day-to-day life. You can ask questions, avoid your phone altogether, or utilize the different skills you can set up and create new routines. How much information are you allowing Alexa and Amazon to collect from you?
Care patients in Britain will see at home visits replaced by a call from an AI VOICE ASSISTANT
Care patients could see at home visits replaced by a call from an AI-powered voice assistant in a new British trial. Dubbed'Siri for care', a human-like virtual assistant will ring patients once a week to ask a list of automated questions. An algorithm will then analyse the answers and alert carers if there are any deteriorations in health so they can arrange a doctor's visit. Similar trials in Europe have reduced A&E visits by 55 per cent, according to the tech company behind it. The new technology will be tested out on patients in domiciliary care for those who are living independently but who rely on helpers to visit them regularly.
You can now dismiss Echo Show timers with a wave
Amazon is rolling out new Echo Show accessibility features today. The company announced new gestures, text-to-speech (TTS) features and caption settings using the device's screen to help customers with disabilities. The Echo Show 8 (2nd Gen) and Echo Show 10 (3rd Gen) now let you dismiss timers with a gesture. If a cooking timer goes off while your hands are messy, you can raise your palm towards the camera to silence it. Of course, Alexa already supported dismissing timers with voice, but the hand-wave accommodates people with speech disabilities (or those who don't feel like talking to a computer).
Bank of America wants a human bridge for its AI help
Erica, which was launched in 2018, garnered 1 billion client interactions and has helped 32 million users. Bank of America expects Erica, early next year, to connect clients to banking agents regarding new products and services, such as mortgages, credit cards and deposit accounts. The pandemic saw a growing number of older customers use digital banking tools, including Erica, Gopalkrishnan said. The bank now wants to build on enhanced adoption by improving the flow of transactions, including the seamless handoff from Erica to human agents and vice versa. "We realized, at some point, people go, 'I'm done with that chat, I need to talk to a human,'" Gopalkrishnan said.