"Active users spend on average over 2 hours daily interacting with our AI." (
https://
blog.character.ai/character-ai/)
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Character.ai Users Spend Over 2 Hours Daily
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AI Products Strategy: Beyond Productivity Assistants
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I've been thinking about AI products recently, and while the major labs (OpenAI, GDM, Anthropic) are competing on productivity assistants, character is clearly going in a different direction. Thinking from first principles, human beings have a few fundamental desires: not being
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Generative AI Integration Now Available on Amazon Web Services
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Generative AI comes to Amazon Web Services
#AI #AIio #BigData #ML #NLU #Futureofwork @TunstallAsc @StrategyFintech @TamaraMcCleary @TerenceLeungSF @psb_dc @thomaspower @vinod1975 @ylecun http://
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EXPRESSO: Benchmark for Discrete Expressive Speech Resynthesis
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EXPRESSO: A Benchmark and Analysis of Discrete Expressive Speech Resynthesis https://
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Wake Word Detection: Alignment-Based, Alignment-Free & Hybrid Approaches
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Handling the Alignment for Wake Word Detection: A Comparison Between Alignment-Based, Alignment-Free & Hybrid Approaches https://
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Multi-Head State Space Model Architecture for Speech Recognition
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Multi-head State Space Model for Speech Recognition https://
bit.ly/3OEIUWJ We propose a multi-head state space architecture equipped with special gating mechanisms, where parallel heads are taught to learn local and global temporal dynamics on sequence data. -
Robust End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding with Modality Confidence
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Modality Confidence Aware Training for Robust End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding https://
bit.ly/45cZLa5 A novel E2E SLU system that enhances robustness to ASR errors by fusing audio + text representations based on est. modality confidence of ASR hypotheses. -
Multimodal LLMs Evaluation Without Image Datasets
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I don’t think there’s a restriction wrt to multimodal LLMs though (eg using techniques like LLaMA-Adapter v2). But yeah, the evaluation datasets won’t include images.
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Amazon Textract Integration for LangChain PDF Loading
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Amazon Textract Integration Loading PDFs has been one of the biggest areas of questions for folks using LangChain to connect to their data That's why I'm excited to highlight our recently-added integration with Amazon Textract https://
python.langchain.com/docs/integrati
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Addressing AI Bias in Education: Transparency Over Fear
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"Keeping kids from cheating is not the issue. We don’t need to fear this technology. Let’s unpack the bias, bring it into the light, teach it, and show that we can mitigate it.” https://
stanford.io/47FmMnM