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Amazon details the AI behind Alexa’s Whisper Mode

January 17, 2020
In October 2018, months after a brief reveal, Amazon brought Whisper Mode to select third- and first-party Alexa devices. It expanded the feature to all locales in November 2019, such that all smart home appliances powered by Alexa — the company’s virtual assistant — now respond to whispered speech by whispering back. Amazon was a bit light on the technical details initially, save that…
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Want optimized AI? Rethink your storage infrastructure and data pipeline

January 17, 2020
This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. ________________________________________________________________________________________   Most discussions of AI infrastructure start and end with compute hardware — the GPUs, general-purpose CPUs, FPGAs, and tensor processing units responsible for training complex algorithms and making predictions…
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Researchers propose system that taps AI to see hidden objects around corners

January 17, 2020
Can sensors see behind the corners of obstacles in real time? As it turns out, yes. A study by researchers at Stanford, Rice University, Princeton, and Southern Methodist University published in the journal Optica proposes a system that’s capable of producing around-the-bend images at high resolutions and speeds. It’s able to distinguish the submillimeter details of hidden objects from 1…
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Dewo uses AI to minimize digital distractions

January 16, 2020
The average person is distracted every 40 seconds when working in front of a computer. Indeed, even the most productive workers get only 11 minutes on average between interruptions. Increasingly, with experiments like Digital Wellbeing and Screen Time, tech giants are…
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Apple just bought a low-power AI startup

January 16, 2020
Apple has acquired another Seattle-based AI startup, Xnor.ai. The startup specializes in low-power edge-based tools that allow AI to operate on devices, rather than in the cloud. The tech could allow Apple to bring edge-based AI software to future iPhone models. Apple is giving its standard response: “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not…
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