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Researchers propose a way to help robots slice vegetables better
Ever wonder why robots sometimes struggle to manipulate objects that humans can pick up with ease? Manipulation tasks need to…
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Amazon researchers boost Alexa’s ability to understand complex commands
Amazon’s Alexa is becoming more proficient at understanding multistep requests in one shot. In a paper (“Parsing Coordination for Spoken Language…
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Google’s AI can change the mood, voice, tense, and sentiment of sentences
Watch out, ghostwriters: Artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for you. In a paper accepted at the NeurIPS 2018 conference in…
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Purdue researchers use AI to predict students’ locations and friends from Wi-Fi data
Location-based check-ins reveal a lot about a person — and college students in particular, as it turns out. Researchers at…
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Amazon’s Alexa learns how to recognize irrelevant questions
Distinguishing between the relevant and irrelevant bits of a conversation is a good life skill in general, but for voice…
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