Article "Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence flywheel"
How deep learning came to power Alexa, Amazon Web Services, and nearly every other division of the company.
by Steven Levy
February 1, 2018
Article "Inside the Alexa Prize"
Amazon is in a pitched battle with its rivals to bring truly conversational AI into our homes. So the company is staging a contest—a mad dash toward an outlandish goal: Cook up a bot capable of small talk.
by James Vlahos
February 27, 2018
Amazon's Alexa has a really creepy laugh
Published on Mar 10, 2018
Alexa has a really creepy laugh. Kim breaks it down. Give us your thoughts in the comments below!
"Between the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies, we have more than enough cinematic evidence to argue that bringing back dinosaurs is a very bad idea. But luckily an upcoming mobile game will allow us to have our dinosaurs without all of the carnage that comes with them.
Universal and Ludia have teamed up to create Jurassic World Alive, an augmented reality game that allows you to collect DNA to unlock dinosaurs and create hybrid dinosaurs. You can walk around to find dinosaurs, but you also have the ability to collect DNA at home."
What Alexa's laughing gaffe tells us about voice recognition
Published on Mar 12, 2018
A few laughing Amazon Echo and Dot speakers give us insight into a bigger story: voice recognition is still very much in its nascency. We still have a ways to go before it can breach the point of understanding tone and context.
9 questions you had about Alexa
Published on Mar 15, 2018
In this week's episode of Quick Question, Jeff sits down with Amazon Alexa expert Ben Fox Rubin. They answer your questions about whether Alexa will ever have a face, how she says "Mario" and if she will ever be integrated with sex toys.
How Amazon's Alexa is turning into HAL-9000
Published on Mar 16, 2018
HAL-9000 is coming to your house! Brett and Tim break it down. Give us your thoughts in the comments below!
"HAL-9000, the malevolent supercomputer at the heart of Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, is an icon of science fiction cinema. So much so, that if you ask any one of the virtual assistants to “Open the pod bay doors,” they’ll dutifully parrot HAL’s lines from the movie back at you. Now, Master Replicas Group wants to take that step a bit further, turning HAL into a virtual assistant that can control your home.
The company name might be familiar to prop and costume fans: the original Master Replicas produced a range of high-quality props from franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek before going out of business a decade ago. If you’ve seen someone swinging around a lightsaber, there’s a good chance it’s one of Master Replicas’ props, or based off of their models. The new company is made up of several former employees, who are getting back into the prop replica business with a new range of products, including an interactive replica of HAL."
"This replica of HAL-9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey comes with Amazon’s Alexa built in"Master Replicas Group 2001 Interactive HAL Computer
Published on Mar 1, 2018
2001 Interactive HAL Computer
For the first time in 50 years, you can own an absolutely authentic, fully-operational HAL 9000 computer interface. The Master Replicas Group Interactive HAL Computer uses Amazon Echo technology to control your home!
Available for preorder this spring. Shipping in second quarter 2018!
Licensed by Warner Bros. Consumer Products.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and all related characters and elements © & ™ Turner Entertainment Co. (s17)
© 2018 MASTER REPLICAS GROUP All rights reserved.
Maybe don’t hook up your garage door to it
by Andrew Liptak
March 10, 2018
Amazon Alexa on Windows PCs is just disappointing
Published on Jun 18, 2018
Amazon's Alexa app for PC is severely limited by region (just U.S.), lacks basic features, requires special firmware, and is only for "select" PCs. Still, there is some hope for it
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