AI as Officemate: Workers benefit from AI-powered assistance and tools.
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AI as Officemate: Workers benefit from AI-powered assistance and tools.

Many workers benefit from AI in the office without knowing it, a new study found. MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group surveyed employees on their use of AI in their day-to-day work. Their findings...

January 4, 20232 min read
How Alexa Says Goodnight: Amazon Echo uses generative AI to create bedtime stories.
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How Alexa Says Goodnight: Amazon Echo uses generative AI to create bedtime stories.

Too exhausted (or unimaginative) to tell your child a bedtime story? Amazon’s smart displays can spin bespoke tales on demand. A feature called Create with Alexa generates children’s stories complete with illustrations, music, and sound effects on the Amazon Echo Show device.

December 7, 20221 min read
How Alexa Says Goodnight: Amazon Echo uses generative AI to create bedtime stories.
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How Alexa Says Goodnight: Amazon Echo uses generative AI to create bedtime stories.

Too exhausted (or unimaginative) to tell your child a bedtime story? Amazon’s smart displays can spin bespoke tales on demand. A feature called Create with Alexa generates children’s stories complete with illustrations, music, and sound effects on the Amazon Echo Show device.

December 7, 20221 min read
Your Coworkers Aren’t Human: Confronting the Fear of a White Collar AI Takeover
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Your Coworkers Aren’t Human: Confronting the Fear of a White Collar AI Takeover

The new remote administrative assistant is a little too perky, hardworking, and efficient. Is it because he’s a bot?

October 26, 20221 min read
Your Coworkers Aren’t Human: Confronting the Fear of a White Collar AI Takeover
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Your Coworkers Aren’t Human: Confronting the Fear of a White Collar AI Takeover

The new remote administrative assistant is a little too perky, hardworking, and efficient. Is it because he’s a bot?

October 26, 20221 min read
Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions
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Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions

A new method enables robots to respond helpfully to verbal commands by pairing a natural language model with a repertoire of existing skills.

September 28, 20222 min read
Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions
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Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions

A new method enables robots to respond helpfully to verbal commands by pairing a natural language model with a repertoire of existing skills.

September 28, 20222 min read
Robots in the Workplace: Google uses robot janitors to clean up offices.
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Robots in the Workplace: Google uses robot janitors to clean up offices.

Machines are doing light janitorial work in the uncontrolled environment of Google’s offices. Everyday Robots, a new spin-out from Google’s experimental X Development division, unleashed 100 robots to perform an array of cleanup tasks.

January 5, 20222 min read
Robots in the Workplace: Google uses robot janitors to clean up offices.
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Robots in the Workplace: Google uses robot janitors to clean up offices.

Machines are doing light janitorial work in the uncontrolled environment of Google’s offices. Everyday Robots, a new spin-out from Google’s experimental X Development division, unleashed 100 robots to perform an array of cleanup tasks.

January 5, 20222 min read
Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world
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Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world

Robots are tremendously useful machines, and I would like to see them applied to every task where they can do some good. Yet we don’t have enough programmers for all this hardware and all these tasks.

December 29, 20213 min read
Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world
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Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world

Robots are tremendously useful machines, and I would like to see them applied to every task where they can do some good. Yet we don’t have enough programmers for all this hardware and all these tasks.

December 29, 20213 min read
Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies
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Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies

The cost of training top-performing machine learning models has grown beyond the reach of smaller companies.

November 17, 20212 min read
Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies
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Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies

The cost of training top-performing machine learning models has grown beyond the reach of smaller companies.

November 17, 20212 min read
Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies
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Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies

What if AI-enabled monitoring isn’t just for dictators and despots?The fear: Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, even countries founded on a commitment to individual rights allow police to take advantage of smart-city infrastructure and smart-home devices.

October 27, 20211 min read
Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies
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Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies

What if AI-enabled monitoring isn’t just for dictators and despots?The fear: Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, even countries founded on a commitment to individual rights allow police to take advantage of smart-city infrastructure and smart-home devices.

October 27, 20211 min read

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