Stephen Potter

Having fun with the stylistics of text generation. Formerly Conversational AI at Amazon Alexa.

[Brad Porter @BradPorter_]

If you're going to build a new business and a new product, build something that gets better as AI improves.

This is something I learned working for Bezos, build your business around the things that won't change.

That's what we did... 3/N

[[ˈdʒeɪn ˈsɛtəʳ ] 🌈 @JaneSetter]

A degree in #English #Language and #Linguistics definitely opens career path doors. It is an excellent synthesis of the creative and scientific. It draws together words, societies & physical sciences, develops numeracy skills & critical thinking.

[Stephen Potter @PotterAtWork]

“analog cyclists”

[Gavin Lohry @gavinlohry]

"e-bikers take longer trips and get pretty much the same physical activity gains as analog cyclists."
https://t.co/sdDw3YhJcR

[Stephen Potter @PotterAtWork]

"£HEllo::.£"

[Balaji @balajis]

The closest thing I can think of to a truly new behavior with no immediate precedent that became popular is Amazon Echo.

People weren’t really walking around the house talking to themselves. I guess Siri existed but I don’t think (?) it was that popular.

[Alison Atwell @AlisonAtwell]

One of many!: https://t.co/AxuIn9frbp

[Stephen Potter @PotterAtWork]

Moving towards a universal schema for dialogue acts

[Stephen Potter @PotterAtWork]

USA friends - when the football match is over we can once again be mates.

[All On The Board @allontheboard]

Tonight is the #Lionesses Vs #USA in the #FIFAWWC Semi final. We shall be singing loud, as they do us proud #RoarForTheLionesses @allontheboard @Lionesses #ENGUSA #USAENG #ENG #EnglandVsUSA #WorldCup2019 #ThreeLionesses #ThreeLions #Proud #FIFAWomensWorldCup #FIFAWomensWorldCup19

[Naval @naval]

@paulg The better your feedback loop, the better your work. Businesses have the market. Novels have the readers. Science has experiments. It’s when the feedback loop is a small group of bosses or peers that quality falls apart.

[Stephen Potter @PotterAtWork]

"Alexa Conversations may be Amazon’s most intriguing and substantial pitch to voice developers in years. [It] will make creating skills possible with fewer lines of code...a recurrent neural network will automatically generate dialogue flow."
https://t.co/PimyK8wjv8 @kharijohnson

[Stephen Potter @PotterAtWork]

Cake shop from another, better, dimension

[Harriet Alida Lye @harrietalida]

My cousin in England told her colleagues she wanted a Mariah Carey birthday cake. They misunderstood, and is the cake they made her instead. It’s Marie Curie, looking very festive.

[Stephen Potter @PotterAtWork]

Not a bad plan - the toaster is kind of a boss in the kitchen. A few more connections and it could make it happen.

[Nick Bilton @nickbilton]

My son (4 years old), who has grown up watching us talk to Siri and Alexa, thinks you can talk to anything that has a screen or is plugged into the wall. This morning he told the toaster to order him a new lego set.

[Stephen Potter @PotterAtWork]

We do the Turing Test different around here

https://t.co/WEaAv3k5cx

[Timothy Burke @bubbaprog]

https://t.co/29nBRzHFoM

[Stephen Potter @PotterAtWork]

A @liu_cixin vibe from the flight leaving Las Vegas after #remars yesterday.

Three towers in the open desert, each with a massive light, a field of reflective surfaces beneath...

(Turns out it's this solar thermal power plant: https://t.co/xXHBRwumhB)

[Prem Natarajan @natarajan_prem]

Delighted to host a panel on fairness in AI at the inaugural #remars #fairness #alexaai #ai

[Christian Vega @topvoiceapps]

@alexadevs "multiple skills into a single conversation"....woaaaah

[Bret Kinsella (Read Synthedia) @bretkinsella]

This may be the biggest change to Alexa development since the introduction of ASK in 2015. "Alexa Conversations to Automate Elements of Skill Building Using AI and Make User Experiences More Natural While Boosting Discovery" - @Voicebotai https://t.co/nN2smYWWo0

[Stephen Potter @PotterAtWork]

Truly conversational AI - the future just got here.

https://t.co/SL5YqbzzDd #AlexaAI

[Stephen Potter @PotterAtWork]

I’ll be talking about the Future of Conversational AI on Wednesday June 5 at #reMARS, Amazon’s AI conference in Las Vegas. Lots of great talks on ML/robotics/space from some top-notch speakers. Hope to see you there! @AmazonreMARS #AlexaAI https://t.co/tsVekYsmLw