How Do Machines Learn to Talk?
Amazon Alexa, Apple's Siri or Google's assistant are able to converse with humans using language. This talk will review the underlying technology and discuss their limitations and potentials.
Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri or Google’s assistant are able to converse with humans using language. The underlying technology – often referred to as spoken dialogue systems – has experienced a revolution over the past decade, moving from being completely handcrafted to using data-driven machine learning methods.
RAS CDT Executive Meeting
Open Assisted Living Lab seeks solutions to care sector's COVID-19 crisis
Submitted by Mirren McLeod on Wed, 01/07/2020 - 09:22Dr Mauro Dragone, Assistant Professor from Heriot-Watt University is one of the scientists launching the open and remote access living lab to research how to create how to create affordable and socially acceptable solutions for Ambient Assisted Living (OpenAAL).
This project is funded by EPSRC and will run for 10 months, ending in April 2021.
More information on the project can be found here.
Summer 2020 Newsletter
Submitted by Mirren McLeod on Tue, 30/06/2020 - 14:32Our Summer 2020 newsletter is available to read here.
IPAB Workshop: The "contact planning problem" for legged robots: A cardinality minimisation approach
The next IPAB Workshop will take place on 25/06/2020 at 13:00 on Blackboard Collaborate. Steve Tonneau will be speaking.
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/c536aea2beb949859f76f450cd3466eb
Title: The "contact planning problem" for legged robots: A cardinality minimisation approach
Abstract: In order to move, legged animals and robots create contacts with their environment.
IPAB Workshop: ‘Just' a timely approximation
The next IPAB Workshop will take place on 11/06/2020 at 13:00 on Blackboard Collaborate. Kartic Subr will be speaking.
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/f105cb2dde824af5b25c29960d6483f3
Title: ‘Just' a timely approximation
Abstract
On-line Executive meeting
SICSA AI Theme online seminar
We are delighted to announce the first SICSA AI Theme online seminar with Dr. Margaret Mitchell from Google AI.
To register, please do so by this Eventbrite page
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sicsa-ai-theme-seminar-tickets-106913459034
Speaker: Dr. Margaret Mitchell (Google AI)
Date/Time: Thursday June 4th, 16:00 (UK time, BST)