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GPT3 vs Humans
I just wrote my first Medium post! TL:DR Don’t get overexcited over GPT3 and such LMs; they may have impressive (creative, beautiful, funny, even scary) generative power, but next to no explanatory power. That is, despite the name, current large Language Models only represent a tiny fraction of what human language use is about and […]
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Amazon Lex now supports multiple ranked ASR Hypotheses!
Today I was really excited to find out from the AWS What’s New website that Amazon Lex will now support multiple ranked ASR Hypotheses. The respective article “Amazon Lex launches multiple transcripts and confidence scores support for speech input” says: “The transcripts provide alternate interpretations of the user’s speech input. Each transcript is associated with […]
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DialogCONNECTION is 13! 🎂🎉🎊🎁
Today, my company, DialogCONNECTION, is 13! 🎂🎉🎊🎁 Founded right after the world’s Economy had crashed in late 2008, little could I have imagined that my industry would literally explode a few years later! In the beginning we were considered niche. My clients knew exactly what they wanted and why, so I didn’t need to preach […]
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Explainable VUI Design
I was recently invited by FORD‘s Shyamala Prayaga to talk about “Explainable VUI Design” on her Digital Assistant Academy podcast “The Future is Spoken” and I was of course delighted to oblige! You can find our (audio and video) conversation on YouTube, Google podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, as well as on the […]
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The WITLINGO Voice First Channel
WITLINGO has launched the Voice First Channel on their website and on YouTube, featuring bitesized interviews with people working in Voice, both Veterans and Newbies. A couple of days ago I contributed some thoughts myself and was later proud to be called a “Voice First OG”! 🙂 You can find my recording here and the […]
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The unbearable Lightness of Voice First
Ahmed Bouzid wrote an interesting post on frequent unrealistic expectations from Voice First (“Voice First Sucks!“) and has started another one listing meaningful Voice First Use Cases. In that second post, he lists 6 dimensions that need to be considered when considering the effectiness and acceptability of Use Cases for Voice / Speech. I was […]
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AI Thought Leaders choose books that have impacted them
A few days ago Richard Foster-Fletcher 🌎 asked 15 AI leaders and influencers to choose a recent book that has impacted them the most. The answers ranged from books on Machine Learning coding, to AI Ethics and the future of AI, and even some visionary fiction. Here is my own choice: Max Tegmark‘s Life 3.0 […]
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How to Design & Optimise Conversational AI Dialogue Systems
The latest episode of Data Futurology features myself talk with Felipe Flores about how I got into AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning (“When I discovered Artificial Neural Networks back in 1993, I thought I had discovered God!”) and later Data Science and Big Data Speech Analytics for Voice User Interface (VUI) and Voice First […]
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The immortality of Data
The latest Boundless Podcast Episode is out! It features myself in a deep conversation with Richard Foster-Fletcher about Big Data and Speech Analytics for Voice First & Voice Assistants (but not only), BigTech, AI Ethics and the need for a new legal framework for Responsible AI and Explainable Machine Learning. Below is a snippet of […]
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‘statistics ≠ understanding’
Almost 30 years ago, when I was doing my PhD at the University of Manchester, I, too, realised that the only promising way to capture this fuzziness, ambiguity and complexity of language and meaning is through a hybrid approach, combining hand-crafted “rules” (human annotations, i.e. symbolic processing) with the automatic weight distribution and semi-supervised learning of a neural network (connectionist processing).
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The LLM, GPT3 and GOOGLE IMAGEN Saga continues…
I just published an article on the GlobalLogic UK&I blog about the Large Language Model, GPT3, and Google IMAGEN hype. NLP does NOT equal NLU! Language processing is great, but Explainable Language Understanding is the only effective — as well as ethical – goal. #LLMs #LMs #GPT3 #Google #IMAGEN #NLP #NLU #ConversationDesign #ConversationalAI #VoiceAI #xAI […]
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VoiceLunch UK does Speech IVRs
Join us on Thursday 18th November at 12pm UK / 1pm CET / 7am EST for a VoiceLunch UK Session on Speech IVRs! We are going to discuss the evolution of “Interactive Voice Response” systems from the irritating touchtone, “Press 1 for Yes, 2 for No” DTMF-only phone bots to the sophisticated branded voicebots of […]
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Neuro-Symbolic AI – combining Deep Learning with Symbolic Logic for common-sense understanding
I recently read an article in MIT Technology Review entitled “A hybrid AI model lets it reason about the world’s physics like a child“. In it, a so-called “Neuro-Symbolic model” is presented, a new AI approach that combines both Deep Learning and Symbolic Logic. “it uses a neural network to recognize the colors, shapes, and […]
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