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Speech Technology Industry Organization Challenges ?Dire Predictions? About AI
Speech Technology Industry Organization Challenges “Dire Predictions” About AI
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) February 10, 2015
In recent news, we have heard about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from some of the brightest (and richest) people in the world. Steven Hawking, for example, recently told the BBC, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” And Bill Gates and Tesla’s Elon Musk recently issued similar long-term warnings.
The Applied Voice Input Output Society (AVIOS) has promoted the development of commercial applications of speech and language technology for 34 years, and exemplifies AI technology developing more slowly than expected. Speech recognition and natural language applications, such as personal assistant software, has finally matured to mainstream applications only after decades of effort. The organization announced that the overstatement of what AI technology can do and how it does it can create unfounded fears that slow the advance of valuable and difficult technologies that aid humans much more than they challenge them.
“We have much more to fear from the misuse of computer technology by humans—cyber-terrorism and cyberwarfare—than from the machines themselves,” Dr. William Meisel, Executive Director, AVIOS, said. “The dire predictions of danger from ‘intelligent’ technologies such as natural language understanding runs the risk that we don’t fully pursue the huge benefits they will be providing.”
AVIOS gave examples of some of the potential benefits, benefits discussed in detail at the organization’s upcoming Mobile Voice Conference April 20-21 (http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com):
A personal assistant application on a mobile device in our business and personal lives can in effect increase our intelligence and skills by being an always-available source of information and facts. It can make the assets of the Web available simply through an inquiry in the language we have been taught since birth.
Language technologies can expand our memories by letting us store information by just telling an application to remember it and retrieve that information by just asking for it.
Language technologies can do web searches that return answers rather than links.
Specialized natural-language applications can help a company’s employees fight “digital overload”—too many devices, too much communication, and a challenging range of enterprise applications, making individuals and organizations more efficient and effective.
Language technologies can provide tools to learn reading or speaking a language, and can help us communicate internationally with automatic translation. In schools, technology can be a one-on-one teacher for students struggling with learning to read.
Language technologies can allow us to continue to be productive if we develop physical limitations to typing or seeing.
In automobiles, speech interaction can make use of the growing infotainment, navigation, and mobile-phone-connectivity features safer, as well as making us more productive on the go.
“A more natural, intuitive, and always-available connection with digital technology in effect makes us smarter and more efficient,” noted K. W. ‘Bill’ Scholz, president, AVIOS, and president, NewSpeech. “It can, for example, provide, on-the-job training, letting workers learn as they do, developing new skills.”
Meisel noted that one trend creates a major new category of creative jobs. “Since conversation can engage an individual more tightly than simply listening or reading, we will see a new category of digital and web applications that converse with us, and adapt their responses to our responses. This is, for example, likely to eventually be a major trend in advertising, what the Wall Street Journal called ‘chatvertising.’ And interactive entertainment and information sources that require much more material than a linear book or movie will probably require a team of writers, providing more jobs for creative people.” (See Can Artificial Intelligence create a new non-technical job category?)
The detailed program of the fifth annual Mobile Voice Conference, April 20-21, 2015 in San Jose, California, has been published at http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/program.
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More Than A Shop Creates a Worry Free Shopping Center by Teaming Up with the Symantec Corporation and the iSafeSite Organization
More Than A Shop Creates a Worry Free Shopping Center by Teaming Up with the Symantec Corporation and the iSafeSite Organization
Kingston, NY (PRWEB) March 02, 2011
More Than A Shop has announced that they recently teamed up with iSafeSite and the Semantec Corporation to make online shopping a safer, more enjoyable and worry free experience. More Than A Shop is an online retailer which caries a wide selection of products including: computers, electronics, sporting goods, apparel and auto parts.
According to company officials, many perspective customers when they reach a new website, their first concern when they go to make a purchase is to worry about whether it is safe to do so. A common indicator of this is when perspective customers keep revisiting the same website over and over again but never make a purchase. The solution: Help them feel more comfortable visiting your site.
Company representatives felt it was their job to do something about it so that perspective customers did not have to guess if it was alright to shop. Company executives, therefore, decided to apply for and were accepted into the iSafeSite network.
The iSafeSite organization is a membership network of trusted and monitored websites that adhere to a strict set of privacy and safe shopping practices. To carry the certification seal, a website must have a clearly stated privacy policy, a return policy, a valid contact number, business address and this information must be easy to find. Websites carrying this certification seal are also checked for website security concerns. While the iSafeSite organization does not mediate disputes, it does reserves the right to revoke certification for unresolved disputes.
For potential customers it be comforting to know that they have come upon a safe and secure website but More Than A Shop has taken it a step further according to the company representatives. Even websites run by honest and legitimate online business owners can still prove dangerous to a customer’s computer and their wallet. The company’s vice president, therefore, decided to utilize Norton Safe Web which is a new reputation service offered by the Semantec Corporation. The result could be seen within a day with a 20% increase in sales.
The Symantec Corporation which is a leader in internet and computer security. Their servers analyze web sites to see how they will affect the computer of a perspective customer before they even visit the website. They then report this information via a toolbar installed in the browser of the perspective website visitor.
Norton Safe Web also provides reviews from other customers and checks for computer viruses, adware, spyware and other dangers. Our potential customers can now check us out before even coming to our website so they can feel more confident about taking their time determining if we have the right products to serve their needs.
Company executives seemed particularly pleased to enroll in Semantic’s Norton Safe Web program. One executive is quoted as saying because it fits in so well with our corporate philosophy of making a shopping place more than just a place to buy goods and services. Want to know more? Visit us at morethanashop.com.
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