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The ethics of advanced AI assistants

The ethics of advanced AI assistants
Exploring the promise and risks of a future with more capable AI

Referring to Screen Texts with Voice Assistants

Voice assistants help users make phone calls, send messages, create events, navigate, and do a lot more. However, assistants have limited capacity to understand their users’ context. In this work, we aim to take a step in this direction. Our work dives into a new experience for users to refer…

July 6, 2023

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Modeling Spoken Information Queries for Virtual Assistants: Open Problems, Challenges and Opportunities

  Virtual assistants are becoming increasingly important speech-driven Information Retrieval platforms that assist users with various tasks. We discuss open problems and challenges with respect to modeling spoken information queries for virtual assistants, and list opportunities where Information Retrieval methods and research can be applied to improve the quality of virtual…

May 23, 2023

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Efficient Multimodal Neural Networks for Trigger-less Voice Assistants

The adoption of multimodal interactions by Voice Assistants (VAs) is growing rapidly to enhance human-computer interactions. Smartwatches have now incorporated trigger-less methods of invoking VAs, such as Raise To Speak (RTS), where the user raises their watch and speaks to VAs without an explicit trigger. Current state-of-the-art RTS systems rely…

June 7, 2023

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AI Generated Robotic Content