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I wove you wobot.

The cutest robot video out there.

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Beginning as early as next year, many people are expected to have more conversations with digital voice assistants than with their spouse. Presently, the vast majority of these assistants—from Amazon’s Alexa to Microsoft’s Cortana—are projected as female, in name, sound of voice and ‘personality’.

“Beginning as early as next year, many people are expected to have more conversations with digital voice assistants than with their spouse.Presently, the vast majority of these assistants—from Amazon’s Alexa to Microsoft’s Cortana—are projected as female, in name, sound of voice and ‘personality’.“

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How Alexa Got Her Personality

Have you ever asked Alexa about her feelings? Or told her that she is hilarious? No need to be embarrassed, you’re not alone. Browse the reviews of the Echo smart speaker on Amazon.com, and you’ll …

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Google's AI Assistant aims to transcend the smart speaker

Even as Google Assistant remains commercially overshadowed by Alexa, it keeps pushing the boundaries of what artificial intelligence can do every day.

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Practical Uses for AI Beyond Machine Translation - RWS

How artificial intelligence is shaping the localization industry is a subject we approach from many different angles. Generally, though, we’ve found that those interested in AI tend to fall into three camps: those who are suspicious and fearful of it (Will AI replace humans?), those who directly develop the technology (How can we improve AI?) [...]

“Those interested in AI tend to fall into three camps: those who are suspicious and fearful of it (Will AI replace humans?), those who directly develop the technology (How can we improve AI?) and those who are optimistic about its potential even if they don’t know what that looks like (How and when should I deploy AI, and what for?).”

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End of an era: Soon smart speakers will outnumber tablets

Tablet sales are in gradual decline as smart speakers continue to rocket ahead, according to analyst predictions. Source: ZDnet

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The Wired guide to robots has loads of information about where robots came from and where they might be going.

Take a look.

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43 Percent of an Average Man’s Job Could Be Automated by 2030

Automation may create as many jobs as it destroys, a new study finds, but men, younger folks, and minorities hold positions that are particularly vulnerable.

“Those patterns aren’t exactly surprising. They are the natural consequence of trends in US employment, where ethnic minorities are more often found in lower-skilled jobs, and men are over-represented in manufacturing and construction jobs. Many young workers enter the workforce in routine jobs such as food service, which are being roiled by innovations in robotic food processing and app or kiosk-style ordering like that embraced by McDonald's.”

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“Mapping the likely inequalities of automation is useful to anticipate wider effects on society and minimize negative effects.”

Wired

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Setting aside the creepy factor, people don’t need or want AI created in their image. By examining how our attitudes towards visual and auditory media have changed in the last decade, we can identify a less anthropomorphized but more rewarding future for intelligent technology.

ClickZ

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Amazon kicks off Alexa trial in Brazil | ZDNet

The company is testing the Brazilian Portuguese service with a group of consumers.

Amazon is taking its first steps towards evolving its artificial intelligence-enabled voice assistant Alexa in Brazil.

The company said it was "excited to bring Alexa to Brazil" and that it will be asking some of its customers "to help refine her capabilities over the coming months."

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Podcast: Decision Intelligence with Cassie Kozyrkov

Chief Decision Scientist, Cassie Kozyrkov joins Mark and Melaniethis week to explain data science, analytics, machine learning and statistical inference, in relation to decision intelligence.

There are several other episodes that provide insights into data science:

#31 TensorFlow with Eli Bixby podcast #84 Kaggle with Wendy Kan podcast #109 Cloud AutoML Vision with Amy Unruh and Sara Robinson podcast #113 Open Source TensorFlow with Yifei Feng podcast #122 Project Jupyter with Jessica Forde, Yuvi Panda and Chris Holdgraf podcast #91 The Future of Media with Machine Learning with Amit Pande podcast #115 Google Play Marketing with Dom Elliott and Stewart Bryson podcast

As well as case studies on real world problems:

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Intelligent Assistants: Users’ Attitudes Toward Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri

Users assume that assistants have a low level of competence for complex tasks and find them to be socially awkward to interact with.

“While a Star Trek-like future of interacting verbally with pervasive computers is not yet here, many strides toward that have emerged in recent years. Intelligent assistants, such as Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant, are becoming increasingly common.Much of the implicit value proposition for using intelligent, conversational assistants is the use of natural language.  But language is an essentially social interface — it evolved to help us communicate with other people. How do the social aspects of language shape our interactions with language-based user interfaces? This is one of the questions that emerged in our research of conversational assistants.”

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Artificial Intelligence Principles at Google

Objectives for AI Applications 1. Be socially beneficial.

2. Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias.

3. Be built and tested for safety.

4. Be accountable to people.

5. Incorporate privacy design principles.

6. Uphold high standards of scientific excellence.

7. Be made available for uses that accord with these principles.

AI Applications We Will Not Pursue

1. Technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm. Where there is a material risk of harm, we will proceed only where we believe that the benefits substantially outweigh the risks, and will incorporate appropriate safety constraints.

2. Weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people.

3. Technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms.

4. Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.

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Google AI blog

The latest news from Google AI.

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Insights from a Reluctant Leader

Why our current definition of leadership doesn’t match the rallying cry for diversity, equity, and inclusion

Why our current definition of leadership doesn’t match the rallying cry for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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The world's first genderless voice assistant is challenging gender stereotypes

Most voice assistants are by default, female. Q, the world’s first genderless voice, hopes to eradicate gender bias in technology.

A group of linguists, technologists and sound designers have teamed up to create Q, the first genderless voice assistant designed to eradicate gender bias in technology.