#ConvComm
Everything related to brands, services, companies, and bots entering conversational contexts (voice, messaging, etc). #ConvComm
Collection by Chris Messina
VentureBeat
OpenAI debuts gigantic GPT-3 language model with 175 billion parameters
3 min · · OpenAI's GPT-3 language model can generate convincing news articles and achieve state-of-the-art results on a range of NLP tasks with few-shot learning. · Shared by 36, including Chris Messina, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, MIT CSAIL, Martin Ford, Rick King
about.instagram.com
Doing More to Support Creators on Instagram
4 min · · Creators have always been at the core of our community. Since the earliest days of Instagram, they have inspired people around the world with their talents, shared their lives and built their personal… · Shared by 11, including Matt Navarra, Chris Messina
speakux.io
Notre mission ?
3 min · · Nous concevons avec vous des expériences naturelles façonnées au plus près des attentes de vos utilisateurs.Pour tout projet l · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
WIRED UK
The secrets behind the runaway success of Apple’s AirPods
4 min · · The wireless headphones have been a surprise hit. Here’s how · Shared by 139, including Sachin Rekhi, Katja Evertz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Rene Ritchie, Michael (मुकेश), Chris Messina
TechCrunch
Smart home startup Josh.ai raises $11 million to offer a home assistant alternative to Alexa
3 min · · Directly taking on Google and Amazon generally seems to be an ill-advised strategy for a young startup. It’s even more complicated when you’re competing on the home assistants front, a technically… · Shared by 41, including Chris Messina, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Power
Bret Kinsella (Read Synthedia)
More People are Choosing Smart Speakers to Listen to Audio Content While Stuck at Home: Report
2 min · · Eric Hal Schwartz on May 1, 2020 at 2:00 pm A growing percentage of U.S. smart speaker owners are turning to their devices to listen for information and entertainment during the current COVID-19… · Shared by 27, including Chris Messina, Carl Robinson 🎙️
Facebook AI
A state-of-the-art open source chatbot
6 min · · Today we’re announcing that Facebook AI has built and open-sourced Blender, the largest-ever open-domain chatbot. It outperforms others in terms of engagement and also feels more human, according to… · Shared by 66, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Katja Evertz, Chris Messina, Gengo 🦁
AI Papers
Can You Put it All Together: Evaluating Conversational Agents' Ability to Blend Skills
1 min · · Being engaging, knowledgeable, and empathetic are all desirable general qualities in a conversational agent. Previous work has introduced tasks and datasets that aim to help agents to learn those… · Shared by 8, including Chris Messina, Brian Roemmele
Engadget
Facebook releases its 'Blender' chatbot as an open-source project
3 min · · Facebook has spent years training its Blender chatbot on 9.4 billion conversational parameters. Now the company is releasing it as an open-source project. · Shared by 36, including Mike Ivars, Katja Evertz, Chris Messina
The Verge
Messenger Rooms are Facebook’s answer to Zoom and Houseparty for the pandemic
5 min · · Facebook is introducing new products to fend off competition · Shared by 68, including Michael (मुकेश), Katja Evertz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Julie Zhuo, Chris Messina, Stephanie A Kowalski
Financial Times
Coronavirus: will call centre workers lose their ‘voice’ to AI?
· The industry is already being transformed by the pandemic as a shift to automation accelerates, threatening jobs · Shared by 12, including Chris Messina, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
TechCrunch
Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps
7 min · · Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. But they could… · Shared by 214, including Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Ben Parr, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Hailley Griffis, Amanda Goetz, Johannes Lenz, John Rampton, Warren Whitlock, Ouriel @Zengo, Chris Messina, hiten.eth, Jan Firsching 🆒, Bill Johnston, Fanzo, Kunal Bhatia, Sachin Rekhi
Google AI
Improving Audio Quality in Duo with WaveNetEQ
6 min · · Posted by Pablo Barrera, Software Engineer, Google Research and Florian Stimberg, Research Engineer, DeepMind Online calls have become a... · Shared by 22, including Chris Messina, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Pete Skomoroch, Gengo 🦁
discordapp.com
Discord — How People are Using Discord to Keep in Touch
· We created Discord to bring people together around games. We're humbled every day to learn how you use it for more. · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
The New York Times
College Is Hard. Iggy, Pounce, Cowboy Joe and Sunny are Here to Help.
6 min · · Schools are elevating the use of chatbots and virtual assistants whose speed and tone can simulate text conversation. · Shared by 13, including Chris Messina, Lee Keyes
VentureBeat
Huawei to launch multilingual voice assistant Celia, starting on the P40 flagship in 6 countries
3 min · · Huawei is launching its own voice assistant to international markets - celia will be available first on the P40 in 6 markets. · Shared by 13, including Chris Messina