Alexa reveals new speech recognition, text-to-speech technologies

Alexa reveals new speech recognition, text-to-speech technologies

Today in Arlington, Virginia, at Amazon’s new HQ2, Amazon Senior Vice President Dave Limp hosted an event in which the devices and service organization rolled its new series of products and services. In part of the presentation, Limp, along with Rohit Prasad, was an Amazon Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Artificial General Intelligence, … Read more

USC and Amazon choose six new research projects

USC and Amazon choose six new research projects

USC + Amazon Center on secure and trusted machine learning,,,,,,,, Established in January 2021 to support basic research and development of new approaches to Machine Learning (ML) Privacy, Security and Reliability, announced today that it has chosen six research projects for 2023-2024, including oven facial projects and two academic projects by new Amazon ML fellowships. … Read more

Management of disaster readiness: AIS role in navigating complex climate risks

Management of disaster readiness: AIS role in navigating complex climate risks

As climate change intensive, our ability to predict and respond to cascading and compound disasters increasingly critical. Floods, droughts, fires and extreme storms are no longer isolated events; They interact with ways that defy traditional prediction systems. One way to tackle this challenge is to exploit artificial intelligence (AI) to create integrated, impact -focused early … Read more

How Thomas Hoe helps Amazon understand European customers

How Thomas Hoe helps Amazon understand European customers

It is fair for Thomas Hoe to describe his career path as “super not -linear”. After all, his career track is turned from award-winning video player (before it really was one thing), to computer science students, for chef in Michelin-star restaurants, to finance Ph.D. Before, he launched Amazon Stores’ first European economic science team. Thomas … Read more

Generalization of diffusion modeling to multimodal, multitaske settings

Generalization of diffusion modeling to multimodal, multitaske settings

One of the lessons in the Machine Learning Revolution has been that perhaps resistant, to educate a model of multiple data types or multiple tasks can improve the relative performance of one-facing models. A model trained in multiple languages, for example, can lead to distinctions that are subtle in one language, but pronounced in another, … Read more