Excited to announce #Devoxx Insights: An AI powered content discovery platform (public beta).

Unlock valuable insights from a conference through questions, semantic or photo search, video summaries, and more.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/devoxx-insights-public-beta-stephan-janssen

#GPT3 #NLP #NLU #AI

My weekly newsletter is out.

• Commit when inspired, not Jan 1
• How did I miss "Talk To Books" and what it means for better conversational interfaces
• What does Cluttercore mean for UI design?

#books #reading #nlu #newsletter #cluttercore

https://williameveryweek.com/cluttercore-no-more-resolutions-and-talking-books-2009e1f20f0b

Very Funny - "Don't put Alexa in your bedroom - it could listen to you" headline on most news outlets this week. I don't get it - Why would this be surprising to anyone? 😂 https://www.foxnews.com/tech/creepy-reason-dont-want-put-alexa-bedroom #vui #cui #nlu #nlp

Finally everyone can acquire an $11k worth smart toilet with voice assistant. Black Hat marketeers and all kinds of criminals can now start to figure out ways to make money out of illegal lav sound recordings, and create blackmail trojans: Send me one bitcoin now or your pot won't flush. Interesting times are ahead of us... https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/19/23510864/kohler-numi-smart-toilet-alexa-ces-2022 #vui #cui #nlu

After years of developing and praising "Natural" language understanding, people are still forced to adopt "VUI speak". We may either consider it a shame, or take pride in the fact that some of the most day-to-day human actions are still beyond what technology is able to cope with today. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362592486_VUI-Speak_There_is_Nothing_Conversational_about_Conversational_User_Interfaces #vui #nlu #ux

Amazon laid off loads of Alexa emloyees in fall 22. Possible reasons: low user engagement and failed monetarization attempts. The future looks uncertain. Let's hope, Alexa doesn't follow Cortana to digital insignificance. https://www.industryleadersmagazine.com/with-a-loss-of-10-billion-is-amazon-alexas-reign-over/ #nlu #speechrecognition #ux #vui

And two more articles in which I explore the possibilities of ChatGPT for conversation designers.

https://link.medium.com/NmXhOhzwPvb
https://link.medium.com/18Tcj8FwPvb

Ot's quite remarkable to see how well ChatGPT does,as long as the prompts remain open & generic, but seems to struggle with prompts that are very specific. Could this be because of the statistic/probabilistic nature of LLMs? Approximating an answer but never exactly getting there?

#nlproc #nlu #chatGPT

Hello world!

I've moved from mastodon.social to this instance, it seems like I can find a lot of my people here, plus the server is a bit less crowded.

I'll keep my .social profile in the air a bit longer, until this one's up and running.

What I'm passionate about:
#conversationdesign
#linguistics
#language
#phonology
#designops
#terrypratchett
#nederlands
#NLU
#conversationalai
#cats