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Amazon Nova AI Challenge -- Trusted AI: Advancing secure, AI-assisted software development
Sattvik Sahai, Prasoon Goyal, Michael Johnston +13
AI systems for software development are rapidly gaining prominence, yet significant challenges remain in ensuring their safety. To address this, Amazon launched the Trusted AI trac…
The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI
Barbara Oakley, Michael Johnston, Ken-Zen Chen +2
In the age of generative AI and ubiquitous digital tools, human cognition faces a structural paradox: as external aids become more capable, internal memory systems risk atrophy. Dr…
Dialogue with Robots: Proposals for Broadening Participation and Research in the SLIVAR Community
Casey Kennington, Malihe Alikhani, Heather Pon-Barry +20
The ability to interact with machines using natural human language is becoming not just commonplace, but expected. The next step is not just text interfaces, but speech interfaces…
Mastering Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts through Pretraining and Multi-task Fine-tuning
Jiachen Li, Qiaozi Gao, Michael Johnston +6
Prompt-based learning has been demonstrated as a compelling paradigm contributing to large language models' tremendous success (LLMs). Inspired by their success in language tasks,…
Alexa, play with robot: Introducing the First Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge on Embodied AI
Hangjie Shi, Leslie Ball, Govind Thattai +39
The Alexa Prize program has empowered numerous university students to explore, experiment, and showcase their talents in building conversational agents through challenges like the…
Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI
Qiaozi Gao, Govind Thattai, Suhaila Shakiah +24
We introduce Alexa Arena, a user-centric simulation platform for Embodied AI (EAI) research. Alexa Arena provides a variety of multi-room layouts and interactable objects, for the…
Improving Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation with a Causal Inference Model
Cat P. Le, Luke Dai, Michael Johnston +3
Effective evaluation methods remain a significant challenge for research on open-domain conversational dialogue systems. Explicit satisfaction ratings can be elicited from users, b…
Alexa, Let's Work Together: Introducing the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge on Conversational Task Assistance
Anna Gottardi, Osman Ipek, Giuseppe Castellucci +27
Since its inception in 2016, the Alexa Prize program has enabled hundreds of university students to explore and compete to develop conversational agents through the SocialBot Grand…
Deep Clustering with Measure Propagation
Minhua Chen, Badrinath Jayakumar, Padmasundari Gopalakrishnan +3
Deep models have improved state-of-the-art for both supervised and unsupervised learning. For example, deep embedded clustering (DEC) has greatly improved the unsupervised clusteri…