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Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI
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Rohit Prasad is the vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa and one of its original creators.
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– Introduction
– Her
– Human-like aspects of smart assistants
– Test of intelligence
– Alexa prize
– What does it take to win the Alexa prize?
– Embodiment and the essence of Alexa
– Personality
– Personalization
– Alexa’s backstory from her perspective
– Trust in Human-AI relations
– Privacy
– Is Alexa listening?
– How Alexa started
– Solving far-field speech recognition and intent understanding
– Alexa main categories of skills
– Conversation intent modeling
– Alexa memory and long-term learning
– Making Alexa sound more natural
– Open problems for Alexa and conversational AI
– Emotion recognition from audio and video
– Deep learning and reasoning
– Future of Alexa
– The big picture of conversational AI
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