Personal Assistant Systems
Five clever ways to use your Echo and Alexa that you'll wish you knew sooner
The built-in screen gives you another helpful security feature if you have an Echo Show. You can turn on the camera from anywhere to make sure everything is OK at home. With Drop In, you can pop in on your speaker or one owned by a friend or family member who has authorized access. It's an excellent way to say hello without picking up the phone. Now, you can use the Alexa app to pop into your own Echo devices. In the app, tap Communicate at the bottom of the screen, then Drop In. Choose the device you want from the list. MORE ECHO USES: 'Alexa, I want to talk to a doctor' - How to use your Echo to get medical help The Amazon Echo, a voice-controlled virtual assistant, is seen at it's product launch for Britain and Germany in London, Britain, September 14, 2016.
Amazon Alexa settles the 'scone' debate for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
With their crumbly texture and smeared with clotted cream and jam, scones are a favourite treat with Brits across the UK. But despite dating back to the early 1500s, one question remains โ how do you pronounce the word'scone'? Now, Amazon's smart assistant, Alexa, claims to have settled the debate, just in time for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Alexa claims'scone' should rhyme with'gone' rather than'own' when speaking the Queen's English. Users just need to say'Alexa, what's the correct way to pronounce scone?' to get the response: 'I pronounce it scone, to rhyme with gone, just like the Queen does.'
Google is scrapping Assistant's ability to set location-based reminders
For people who know it exists, the ability to set location-based reminders is one of Google Assistant's most useful features. It lets them specify a location, so that they can get an alert when they arrive wherever it is -- for instance, a user can say "Remind me to call [name of their friend] in NYC," and Assistant will send them a notification when they step foot in the city. The bad news for those who rely on the feature to remind them to get certain things from the grocery store or to fill up their car tanks when they pass by a gas station is that it'll soon no longer exist. In the Assistant Help page, Google added a line that says: "The option to create reminders for a certain location is going away soon." The company trailed behind Apple and Amazon in introducing the feature and first announced the ability to set location-based reminders via Google Home devices in 2018.
The Role of AI in Web 3.0
Despite serving us well for the past two decades, Web 2.0 -- the current iteration of the world wide web -- comes with its own shortcomings. And due to widespread privacy and security concerns, we're steadily entering a new digital era known as Web 3.0. Web 3.0, also known as the Semantic Web, is the next phase of the internet's evolution, promising to bring more user empowerment, openness, and privacy. Web 3.0 applications aim to achieve a higher degree of security and interoperability by building decentralized infrastructure, which removes the need for central servers. Instead, Web 3.0 applications will be running on distributed blockchain and cloud networks.
Innovative Papers to Read on Graph Convolution Networks part 2
Abstract: The recently proposed Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have achieved significantly superior performance on various graph-related tasks, such as node classification and recommendation. However, currently researches on GCN models usually recursively aggregate the information from all the neighbors or randomly sampled neighbor subsets, without explicitly identifying whether the aggregated neighbors provide useful information during the graph convolution. In this paper, we theoretically analyze the affection of the neighbor quality over GCN models' performance and propose the Neighbor Enhanced Graph Convolutional Network (NEGCN) framework to boost the performance of existing GCN models. First, we at the first time propose the concept of neighbor quality for both node classification and recommendation tasks in a general theoretical framework. Specifically, for node classification, we propose three propositions to theoretically analyze how the neighbor quality affects the node classification performance of GCN models.
How is Artificial Intelligence involved in Recommender systems??
When you use the internet to purchase a book from Amazon, order a menu, or even watch a movie on Netflix. Then you receive real-time suggestions for new services. Hence, you manipulate one of the intelligent recommendation systems. So how does Artificial Intelligence (AI) influence these systems' performance? Moreover, before that, what are recommender systems (RSs)?
Amazon Virtual Assistant Job - Pointforjobs
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Boost your home security for less with this Anker Eufy camera for $30
If you need an extra pair of eyes in the living room or study, Amazon has the deal for you today. To get the deal, you need to clip the $4 off coupon underneath the price on the product page. We haven't reviewed this camera, but it's well liked on Amazon with 4.5 out of 5 stars from nearly 6,000 user reviews. It's also compatible with voice assistants including Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, meaning you can control your camera or get visuals from it with select devices. It doesn't have pan and tilt, but it does have customizable activity zones and local storage for your videos with an option for additional cloud storage.
SkillBot: Identifying Risky Content for Children in Alexa Skills
Le, Tu, Huang, Danny Yuxing, Apthorpe, Noah, Tian, Yuan
Many households include children who use voice personal assistants (VPA) such as Amazon Alexa. Children benefit from the rich functionalities of VPAs and third-party apps but are also exposed to new risks in the VPA ecosystem. In this paper, we first investigate "risky" child-directed voice apps that contain inappropriate content or ask for personal information through voice interactions. We build SkillBot - a natural language processing (NLP)-based system to automatically interact with VPA apps and analyze the resulting conversations. We find 28 risky child-directed apps and maintain a growing dataset of 31,966 non-overlapping app behaviors collected from 3,434 Alexa apps. Our findings suggest that although child-directed VPA apps are subject to stricter policy requirements and more intensive vetting, children remain vulnerable to inappropriate content and privacy violations. We then conduct a user study showing that parents are concerned about the identified risky apps. Many parents do not believe that these apps are available and designed for families/kids, although these apps are actually published in Amazon's "Kids" product category. We also find that parents often neglect basic precautions such as enabling parental controls on Alexa devices. Finally, we identify a novel risk in the VPA ecosystem: confounding utterances, or voice commands shared by multiple apps that may cause a user to interact with a different app than intended. We identify 4,487 confounding utterances, including 581 shared by child-directed and non-child-directed apps. We find that 27% of these confounding utterances prioritize invoking a non-child-directed app over a child-directed app. This indicates that children are at real risk of accidentally invoking non-child-directed apps due to confounding utterances.