Amazon Alexa
virtual assistant service
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Videos Mentioning Amazon Alexa
Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #81
Lex Fridman
An AI assistant that children interact with, often rudely, highlighting a challenge in human-robot interaction regarding social development and robot expressiveness.
Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion | Lex Fridman Podcast #121
Lex Fridman
A virtual assistant, whose team is noted by Lex Fridman as not being as obsessed with open-domain dialogue as he'd expect.
Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #57
Lex Fridman
Amazon's AI-powered virtual assistant, discussed as a product and a platform for AI research.
MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning for Human Sensing
Lex Fridman
A voice assistant service thanked for its contribution to the class.
MIT AI + Education Summit 2024: MIT App Inventor Panel
MIT Open Learning
An interface for programming Amazon Alexa was developed with support from Amazon Future Engineers.
Ep. 244: Cal Newport’s Thoughts on ChatGPT
Cal Newport
An example of ubiquitous at-home AI appliances that communicate via natural language, which Amazon uses to gather data for training better AI interfaces.
Open Learning Talks | AI Education: Research and Practice
MIT Open Learning
A virtual assistant, used as a comparison point for more transactional human-computer interactions.