Participants in a recent roundtable discussion with Automation World saw Georgia Tech engineering, science and research experts sharing their thoughts on the trajectories and effects of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Amazon says it’s working on a new speaking style for digital assistant Alexa based on “neural text-to-speech” tech, which eventually will make Alexa sound more like a “newscaster”. If things go well, Amazon will be launching this “voice” on enabled devices in the coming weeks.
Industry and thought leaders across a wide array of disciplines have advocated for having machines understand our languages, instead of having people understand machines’ languages. This argument has recently moved beyond code. How machines talk to each other is worth a deeper discussion.
What if one day humans are not the smartest species on Earth? What if Skynet becomes a reality, and no Terminator can save us? One way to solve these problems is to make machines more like humans, and teach them ethics.
It extracts text from more than a billion public Facebook & Instagram images & even video frames (in a wide variety of languages), daily, & in real time.
My friend the robot? Human to machine communications will enable simple, secure control of robots on the factory floor with the communications channels workers already know and use. KUKA’s Andy Chang shares his vision for the factory of the future, and the critical transition from robot whisperers to AI- and IoT-driven communications.