Nikko Strom

VP/Distinguished Scientist and member of founding team of Alexa. My opinions are my own.

[Amazon Science @AmazonScience]

🗣️ Announcing Amazon Nova Sonic, a new speech-to-speech foundation model that can understand voice as input & generate a human-like voice as output.

➡️ Available via a new API in Amazon Bedrock, the model simplifies the development of voice applications: https://t.co/nbZQvrIFnF

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

Looking for an off-ramp. Is there a mastodon server with an active ML/AI discussion? @NandoDF @Miles_Brundage @ilyasut @Smerity @ctnzr @karpathy @goodfellow_ian

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

Is there an ML/AI mastodon server i should join?

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

There are only two hard problems in AI: the control problem and (agreeing on) naming things.

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

@marxmatt Thanks @marxmatt for the kind words. It was great seeing you! And for the record, Alexa has been a great team effort, and the best is yet to come! #AmazonScience

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

You know that neural net weights tend to be Gaussian distributed, right? And you probably have an idea why, right? But do they have to be? In this paper we show that, no they don't, and this can be very useful when quantizing weights aggressively. https://t.co/5wxWwJ4EOM

[Amazon Science @AmazonScience]

Today, Amazon took three steps toward letting people interact with voice AI systems in their native tongues, announcing (1) a 51-language parallel dataset (MASSIVE), (2) a new competition using that dataset (MMNLU), and (3) a related workshop at EMNLP '22. https://t.co/TFDbrZU0wg

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

@sama Alexa?

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

Deep learning is a ball of mud. #AmazonScience
What’s next for deep learning? https://t.co/byflnTILkk

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

@jacobmbuckman Historically, the term was coined to indicate artificial neural networks with many layers (around the time Hinton and others figured out how to train such models). Today it appears to be indiscriminately used for all kinds of models and training algorithms.

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

@Miles_Brundage So many punch cards.

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

Alexa is taking another leap towards natural conversation. This is rolling out gradually on Show 10 now, so please have patience if your device is not enabled yet. #Alexa #AlexaAI #ComputerVision #AmazonScience https://t.co/YWcHALJDZy

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

@haldaume3 Push out is less ambiguous. Opposite of pull in.

[Amazon Science @AmazonScience]

On the next episode of Alexa & Friends, @jeffblankenburg will be chatting with Pradeep Natarajan, Alexa AI principal applied scientist, about his work in computer vision, machine learning, and multimedia processing. Tune in at 9am PT on Oct. 28. #Alexa https://t.co/BdFRXqRj7U

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

@tobias_rees @ylecun The "priniciple" can still be general, but yes, an instantiation based in this "principle" that we seek, would be concrete and situated.

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

@Smerity Reading and writing.

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

@laurieontech Lol. IVR systems are not "AI". Not even the right county.

[Amazon News @amazonnews]

Congrats to Amazon’s MiMi Aung 🎉 - just named to the 2021 @TIME 100 list for her leadership on Ingenuity, the @NASAJPL #MarsHelicopter. MiMi now works on Project Kuiper, helping bring affordable broadband to communities around the world. #TIME100 https://t.co/C3cMVJiNMo

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

@fchollet I've seen this with color and tool. Even tried it myself on a few people. With the right conditioning/clearing your mind, the answer is always the same color and the same tool.

[Nikko Strom @nikkostrom]

@hadip Next up North Korea blasts those pesky SpaceX satellites out of the sky and creates a massive Kessler debris field. The future is bright.