Amazon today announced that a team from the University of Michigan has won the Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge. The SimBot Challenge’s goal is to advance the...
Embodied artificial intelligence (EAI) aims to train embodied agents to solve challenging multimodal tasks involving navigation and object manipulation within an interactive simulation environment. Developing such...
The annual meeting of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) introduced an industry track in 2018, and at this year’s conference,...
A. To begin with, Alexa already exhibits common sense in a number of areas. For example, if you say to Alexa, “Set a reminder for the...
As the world has become more connected, and computing has permeated our surroundings, a new AI paradigm is emerging: ambient intelligence. In this paradigm, our environment...
Through smart-home devices and systems, customers can already instruct Alexa to do things like open garage doors, turn lights on and off, or start the dishwasher....
In June, one of us (Prem) wrote a blog post for Amazon Science arguing that Alexa, and more generally, the field of AI, is entering a...
Recently, AI models that can engage in open-domain dialogue have made a lot of progress — the top finishers in the Alexa Prize challenge, for instance. But dialogue...
Earlier today, the Alquist team from Czech Technical University learned it had been awarded the $500,000 first-prize purse in the Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 4....
The Czech Republic captured four gold medals at the 2021 summer Olympics in Japan, quite a feat for the Central European country with a population of...