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Wired | Sept. 24, 2020
When Amazon released the Echo smart speaker in 2014, people marveled at the convenience of voice-controlled computing. But the novelty has worn off, and today they are more likely to grumble about how often Alexa gets confused. Now, Amazon has a plan to make Alexa smarter—with you as the teacher. -
Engadget | Sept. 24, 2020
In addition to a new orb-shaped Echo speaker and a slew of other news today, Amazon announced new Alexa capabilities that might make the assistant seem more human. -
IEEE Spectrum | August 17, 2020
Amazon cleared an important hurdle when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced on 30 July that the company was authorized to deploy and operate its Kuiper satellite constellation. -
Towards Data Science | August 14, 2020
Amazon has long been striving to fix the issue of excess demand (vs supply) of individuals who have proficiency across the fields both Machine Learning and Software Engineering. -
Businesswire | August 14, 2020
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Braket, a fully managed AWS service that provides a development environment to help customers explore and design quantum algorithms. -
VentureBeat | August 13, 2020
Amazon today announced the general availability of Amazon Braket, a fully managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) product that provides a development environment for exploring and designing novel quantum algorithms. -
GeekWire | August 13, 2020
Eight months after unveiling its Amazon Braket quantum computing platform, Amazon Web Services says the cloud-based service is officially open for business. -
CalTech | August 6, 2020
Preparations are under way for the new Amazon Web Services Center for Quantum Computing, scheduled to open in spring 2021. -
Forbes | August 4, 2020
A team of students from Emory University has won the $500,000 Alexa Prize for advancing the field of conversational AI. -
VentureBeat | July 23, 2020
Last December during its re:Invent 2019 conference in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled Contact Lens, a virtual call center product for Amazon Connect that transcribes calls while simultaneously assessing them. After a monthslong preview, Contact Lens today launched in general availability. -
VentureBeat | July 16, 2020
AI isn’t the end-all-be-all when it comes to conversational experiences like Amazon’s Alexa. In fact, manual solutions to problems are sometimes superior to automated, AI-driven fixes. That’s according to Amazon Alexa AI director of research science Janet Slifka, who spoke during a session today at VentureBeat’s Transform 2020 conference. -
VentureBeat | July 16, 2020
Businesses and developers making conversational AI experiences should start with the understanding that you’re going to have to use unsupervised learning to scale, said Prem Natarajan, Amazon head of product and VP of Alexa AI and NLP. -
VentureBeat | June 29, 2020
In a preprint paper published on Arxiv.org, researchers at Amazon, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Texas at Austin describe X-Transformer, an approach to tuning language algorithms to the problem of returning labels from large data sets. -
BusinessWire | June 23, 2020
Amazon today announced The Climate Pledge Fund to support the development of sustainable technologies and services that will enable Amazon and other companies to meet The Climate Pledge—a commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040. -
VentureBeat | June 16, 2020
A week after imposing a moratorium on sales of its facial recognition service to law enforcement, Amazon today unveiled Distance Assistant, an open source platform designed to enforce physical distancing rules within industrial — and potentially retail and corporate — workspaces. -
CNBC | June 10, 2020
Amazon said on Wednesday that it’s banning use of its facial recognition software by police for one year, as pressure on tech companies increases to respond to the killing by a police officer in Minneapolis of George Floyd, an unarmed black man. -
VentureBeat | June 5, 2020
In a series of papers scheduled to be presented at the IEEE Conference Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Amazon researchers propose complementary AI that could form the foundation of an assistant that helps customers shop for clothes. -
The Engine | June 4, 2020
Rohit Prasad, Alexa AI vice president and head scientist, says he gets most excited by AI innovations that transform our daily lives in a positive way. I also cherish AI advances that make complex tasks simple. -
BusinessWire | May 21, 2020
Projects will supply renewable energy to the fulfillment centers and AWS data centers that support millions of customers globally. -
STAT | May 7, 2020
Shipping behemoth Amazon is increasingly throwing its weight into the pandemic response, sharing its staff’s web and research design expertise with scientists across the country and digging into its deep pockets to fund and shape a smattering of Covid-19 studies and projects. -
VentureBeat | May 18, 2020
Researchers affiliated with the University of Southern California and Amazon Robotics have explored a solution to the problem of lifelong multi-agent path finding (MAPF), where a team of agents must be moved to constantly changing goal locations without collisions. -
HIT | May 15, 2020
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) are collaborating on two projects involving sequencing the genomes of the viruses infecting hundreds of COVID-19 patients in the Bay Area using CRISPR gene-technology in a clinical research study. -
voicebot.ai | May 15, 2020
Amazon has unveiled the five finalists for the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge. The finalists, narrowed down from an initial 15 colleges worldwide, will now move into the last round of the contest for cash grants and a place in Alexa’s future. -
GeekWire | May 14, 2020
Alexa, do I need a coronavirus test? That's a query that almost certainly was not in the repertoire for Amazon's voice assistant six months ago. -
VentureBeat | April 14, 2020
In a pair of preprint papers published this week on Arxiv.org, Amazon researchers describe two novel systems — one that facilitates automatic speech recognition and another responsible for dialog state tracking — that they say achieve state-of-the-art performance compared with several baseline models. -
Forbes | April 13, 2020
The lung scans of coronavirus patients coming out of Wuhan, China had the tell-tale signs of infection. While healthy lungs would usually show up as dark, these were showing the white haziness doctors describe as “ground glass” on chest x-rays and CT scans, resembling the splintering of a car windshield, and in some cases, a near total whiteout. -
VentureBeat | April 9, 2020
In a paper scheduled to be presented at the upcoming International Conference on Learning Representations, Amazon researchers propose an AI approach that greatly improves performance on certain meta-learning tasks (i.e., tasks that involve both accomplishing related goals and learning how to learn to perform them). -
ClinicalOMICs | March 31, 2020
A new study of COVID-19 patients intended to identify genomic and other biological factors of patient susceptibility was launched yesterday by the Hannover Medical School in Germany, with support from a range of genomics and technology companies including Rescale, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bionano Genomics, Genoox, and other companies associated with Tech Against Covid. -
VentureBeat | March 30, 2020
In a paper published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Amazon scientists detail a way for AI models to learn features from images that are compatible with previously computed ones. -
The Verge | March 9, 2020
Amazon will start selling the technology behind its cashierless Amazon Go stores to other retailers, according to Reuters. Amazon reportedly has “several” retailers already signed up to use the system, which will be marketed as Just Walk Out technology by Amazon. -
GeekWire | February 25, 2020
Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines, Amazon is opening its first “Amazon Go Grocery” store in Seattle on Tuesday morning, enlarging the footprint for surveillance-style shopping and signaling a larger challenge to the broader world of brick-and-mortar retail. -
Adweek | February 25, 2020
Amazon is testing what may be the first commercial customer service chatbot to produce wholly original dialogue in real time using recent breakthroughs in AI language generation. -
The Next Platform | February 18, 2020
If you want inspiration for a hyperscale, resilient distributed block storage service, apparently a jellyfish is a good place to start looking for architectural features. That is precisely what Amazon Web Services has done to create Physalia, the massively distributed database service that stores the metadata for its Elastic Block Store service, which as the name suggests provides block storage for applications running on that public cloud. -
Forbes | January 15, 2020
Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab and NASA are using both unsupervised learning and anomaly prediction to better predict the conditions that are associated with superstorms. -
SiliconANGLE | January 09, 2020
AutoGluon automates complicated tasks and can create a new machine earning model with as little as three lines of code by automatically tuning choices within default ranges that are known to perform well for a given task. -
VentureBeat | January 03, 2020
Amazon says it’s applying AI and machine learning to calculate inflation rates — and to examine the design of randomized trials and experiments. -
VentureBeat | December 26, 2019
Algorithms have long struggled to make out characters that aren’t parallel with horizontal planes, which is why researchers at Amazon developed what they call TextTubes. -
TechCrunch | December 18, 2019
Amazon is ramping operations for its Kuiper project, its forthcoming high-speed satellite internet product, with a new HQ and R&D facility. -
YouTube | December 14, 2019
In this conversation with Lex Fridman, host of the Artificial Intelligence podcast, Rohit Prasad, VP and head scientist, Amazon Alexa AI, talks about the cutting-edge work the Alexa team is doing to address some of the most challenging problems in conversational AI. -
Tech Xplore | December 09, 2019
Using a divide-and-conquer approach that leverages the power of compressed sensing, computer scientists from Rice University and Amazon have shown they can slash the amount of time and computational resources it takes to train computers for product search. -
VentureBeat | December 09, 2019
Amazon researchers have investigated joke selection methods that tap natural language processing and machine learning models. -
Fast Company | December 02, 2019
This gadget from Amazon Web Services shows off the power of AI by helping developers compose everything from jazz to rock—with help from a neural network. -
TechCrunch | December 02, 2019
With Braket, developers can get started on building quantum algorithms and basic applications and then test them in simulations on AWS, as well as the quantum hardware from its partners. -
Wired | December, 2019
Intuit implemented Amazon SageMaker in 2017. With this internal upgrade, Intuit has been able to generate a series of custom machine learning models — paired with other machine learning services like Amazon Textract — to create better, more personalized financial management services. -
Wired | December, 2019
AWS has been a key partner in Disney’s transition from traditional machine learning to deep learning. -
BBC | November 20, 2019
To pursue its goal of achieving leadership in ubiquitous computing, Amazon recently launched its own Alexa-enabled earbuds and is testing other wearables including glasses and even a ring with select customers. -
Reuters | November 19, 2019
Business software provider Salesforce.com Inc said on Tuesday it would use artificial intelligence (AI) technology from Amazon.com Inc’s cloud computing unit to improve customer service apps. -
VentureBeat | November 13, 2019
AWS customers can “securely” find, subscribe to, and use third-party data from “category-leading” brands, including Change Healthcare and Foursquare. -
MIT Technology Review | November 05, 2019
The creator of the famous voice assistant dreams of a world where Alexa is everywhere, anticipating your every need. -
VentureBeat | October 28, 2019
Scientists at Amazon have proposed a data selection technique that halves the amount of required training data. -
TechCrunch | March 17, 2019
Up close with the robots that run Amazon’s fulfillment centers. -
NPR | November 21, 2018
AI is key to Amazon's retail forecasting on steroids and its push to shave off minutes and seconds in the rush to prepare, pack and deliver.