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Amazon Deepens University Ties With Alexa Programme in AI Race
03 March 2017 IST
Amazon Deepens University Ties With Alexa Programme in AI Race


Amazon.com Inc has launched a new programme to assist college students in constructing abilities into its voice-controlled assistant Alexa, the agency told Reuters, the modern-day circulate by a technology firm to nurture thoughts and skills in artificial intelligence studies.

The e-commerce agency said it's far buying a year-long doctoral fellowship at 4 universities for an undisclosed sum. running with professors, the Alexa Fund Fellows will help college students address complicated technology problems in elegance on Alexa, like a way to convert text to speech or system verbal exchange.

Amazon, Alphabet Inc's Google and others are locked in a race to develop and monetize artificial intelligence. in contrast to a few rivals, Amazon has made it smooth for 1/3-birthday celebration builders to create competencies for Alexa so it may get higher faster - a tactic it now could be extending to the school room.

The fellowship can also help Amazon recruit sought-after engineers whose studies will cause them to extra acquainted with Alexa than with different voice-managed assistants. the schools within the programme are Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, the university of Southern California and Canada's college of Waterloo.

"We need Alexa to be a superb sandbox" for college students, said Doug Booms, VP of world company development at Amazon, in an interview on Wednesday.

He added that the fellowship's intention is to excite the subsequent technology of students about natural language information and different voice technologies, now not to provide research for Amazon. underneath the programme, college students' projects remain their own intellectual belongings.

On the university of Waterloo, college students are improving Alexa's interaction with air conditioners so it understands requests to cool a room to its regular temperature, with out requiring the user to specify a range of in Celsius, said Fakhri Karray, a professor of electrical and laptop engineering who's overseeing the paintings.

Securing near ties to college expertise and research has emerged as an urgent priority for many tech corporations. Uber technologies Inc in 2015 took forty human beings from Carnegie Mellon's robotics centre in-residence to work on self-driving cars and different initiatives. Microsoft Corp has awarded fellowships to doctoral researchers in extraordinary areas of PC technology, like synthetic intelligence, for years.

Amazon itself created the Alexa Prize opposition among universities to push forward conversational synthetic intelligence, with a $100,000 (kind of Rs. 67 lakhs) stipend for every sponsored group.

The money for the brand new fellowship comes from the Alexa Fund, a funding by way of Amazon of as much as $one hundred million to strengthen voice generation.

 
 
 
 
 

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