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Introducing the Alexa Prize, It’s Day One for Voice

All Things Distributed

As such there is also a strong need for fundamental research on these interactions, best described as “Conversational Artificial Intelligence.”. Teams of university students can submit applications now and the contest will conclude at AWS re:Invent in November 2017, where the winners will be announced.

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Improving Customer Service with Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex

All Things Distributed

So much so, that in March 2017, we announced Amazon Connect, which is the result of nearly ten years of work to build cloud-based contact centers at scale to power customer service for more than 50 Amazon teams and subsidiaries, including Amazon.com, Zappos, and Audible. AI has incredible potential in this area.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. Coincidence? Probably not, but only time will tell.

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What Are ChatGPT and Its Friends?

O'Reilly

All of these models are based on a technology called Transformers , which was invented by Google Research and Google Brain in 2017. Facebook/Meta’s LLaMA, which is smaller than GPT-3 and GPT-4, is thought to have taken roughly one million GPU hours to train, which would cost roughly $2 million on AWS.

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