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Personnaliser les services, et le bot en fonction de l'humeur et la personnalité de la personne. L'affective computing ou social computing continue d'intéresser les industriels. Orange s'y intéresse et s'interroge aussi sur le degré d'acceptabilité des usagers. Jusqu'où aller dans la personnalisation de services et d'interaction avec les machines?

"Brain-computer interfaces are developing faster than the policy debate around them It's time to talk about what's possible - and what shouldn't be"

"Some companies and scientists present Affective Computing, the algorithmic analysis of personality traits also known as "artificial emotional intelligence", as an important new development. But the methods that are used are often dubious and present serious risks for discrimination. It was announced with some fanfare that Alexa and others would soon demonstrate breakthroughs in the field of emotion analysis. Much is written about affective computing, but products are far from market ready. For example, Amazon's emotion assistant Dylan is said to be able to read human emotions just by listening to their voices. However, Dylan currently only exists in form of a patent. So far, Amazon, Google et al. have not launched such products. Identifying unique signals that indicate that someone is sad seems to be a bit more complicated than they initially thought. Maybe someone's voice sounds depressed because they are depressed, but maybe they are just tired or exhausted. However, these difficulties do not prevent other companies from launching products that claim to have solved these complex problems by using voice and speech for character and personality analysis." > One is the company Precire, based in Aachen, a city on border with Belgium. Their idea: you record a voice sample, and based on the person's choice of words, sentence structure and many other indicators, the software then produces an analysis of their character traits. The software can be used in staff recruitment or to identify candidates for promotion. > critique de la méthode : biais, discrimination...

"Wikidata, an obscure sister project to Wikipedia, aims to (eventually) represent everything in the universe in a way computers can understand. Maintained by an army of volunteers, the database has come to serve an essential yet mostly unheralded purpose as AI and voice recognition expand to every corner of digital life. "Language depends on knowing a lot of common sense, which computers don't have access to," says Denny Vrandečić, who founded Wikidata in 2012. A programmer and regular Wikipedia editor, Vrandečić saw the need for a place where humans and bots could share knowledge on more equal terms."

Le but ultime d'Amazon est de s'imposer dans « l'informatique d'ambiance » (« ambient computing »), dit-il, pas dans les assistants au sens strict. Après s'être attaqué à la maison, Amazon va s'attaquer à l'automobile, mais aussi aux interactions vocales sur le lieu de travail. Pour lui, les assistants vocaux qu'on utilise pour son smartphone ne rentrent pas dans ce cadre. Même si, bien sûr, c'est dans son intérêt de dire cela, car Google et Siri d'Apple sont, à la différence d'Alexa, pré-installés dans des centaines de millions de smartphones...

La graal de la voix selon Amazon : avoir une conversation sans y avoir pensé en terme de programmation de bout en bout. Un film- the night out scenario présenté lors de cette rencontre montre une conversation fluide avec alexa pour commander et réserver plusieurs choses : une place de cinéma, un diner et un taxi. L'objectif est de faire accomplir par l'assistant vocal des taches complexes incorporant plusieurs "skills" et permettant de réduire le nombre d'itérations pour faire des tâches comme réserver une place de cinéma ou commander à manger. La voix définira les contours de la technologie des 10 prochaines années. Je veux utiliser le même assistant sur tous les supports (devices) et non par support : l'assistant de la voiture, l'assistant de la télé,...

"The USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a leader in basic research and advanced technology development of virtual humans who think and behave like real people. ICT brings together experts in clinical psychology, cognitive science, computer vision, speech processing and artificial intelligence. This video shows two interactive technologies recently developed for multimodal perception and healthcare support: Multisense automatically tracks and analyzes in real-time facial expressions, body posture, acoustic features, linguistic patterns and higher-level behavior descriptors (e.g. attention, fidgeting). From these signals and behaviors, indicators of psychological distress are inferred to inform directly the healthcare provider or the virtual human. SimSensei is a virtual human platform specifically designed for healthcare support and is based on the 10+ years of expertise at ICT with virtual human research and development. The platform enables an engaging face-to-face interaction where the virtual human automatically reacts to the perceived user state and intent, through its own speech and gestures. Please note that due to privacy concerns, the people shown in this video are actors. SimSensei is not designed for therapy or medical diagnosis, but is intended as a support tool for clinicians and healthcare providers."

> la BBC ne met plus ses podcasts à disposition des services google podcast ou google assistant "You might have also seen that our podcasts are no longer available on certain Google products - including the Google Podcast app and Google assistant. I want to explain a little bit about why that has happened. Last year, Google launched its own podcast app for Android users - they've also said they will launch a browser version for computers soon. Google has since begun to direct people who search for a BBC podcast into its own podcast service, rather than BBC Sounds or other third party services, which reduces people's choice - an approach that the BBC is not comfortable with and has consistently expressed strong concerns about. We asked them to exclude the BBC from this specific feature but they have refused. As a public service, we want our content and services to be available to as many people as possible and we make these available for free on a range of third-party apps. But as the BBC, funded by the licence fee payers in the UK, we have to ensure it is done in a way that is good for all audiences, according to our Distribution Policy - which has been agreed with Ofcom." "We also want to make our programmes and services as good as they can possibly be - this means us getting hold of meaningful audience data. This helps us do a number of things; make more types of programmes we know people like, make our services even more personalised and relevant to people using them, and equally importantly, identify gaps in our commissioning to ensure we're making something for all audiences. Unfortunately, given the way the Google podcast service operates, we can't do any of the above."

"Anything World is a platform that allows you to play with any object you can imagine using the power of your voice. We have combined cutting edge Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Understanding, Computer Vision and extensive 3D libraries to allow you to request, see, manipulate and experience anything you can think of. Simply say what you want, have it appear and then play with it within your 3D world - be that in AR, VR, a game, a simulation..."

8 feminist personal intelligent assistant prototypes Designing a Feminist Alexa Seminar UAL Creative Computing Institute and Feminist Internet > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQyKdC37M20&t=876s

"Vint Cerf says "it's almost criminal" that programmers aren't held accountable to design with disabilities in mind."

"Google started an unusual artificial intelligence experiment this month. If you instruct its Siri-style virtual assistant to "talk like a Legend," it will speak in a simulacrum of the smooth sound of Grammy-winning crooner John Legend. The singer helped demonstrate a promising, but contentious, use case for AI. Software that can impersonate people's voices can make computers more fun to talk with, but in the wrong hands might be used to make so-called "deepfakes" intended to deceive. How good is voice cloning technology now? Google's project provides a snapshot."

How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think By James Vlahos "When his father was diagnosed with cancer, Vlahos decided to program a chatbot - which he named "Dadbot" - with his father's life stories, jokes and some of his mannerisms and personality quirks. Vlahos begins by gathering source material, interviewing his father about his childhood, family memories, school, work and favorite sports teams. He records the interviews, and their transcriptions fill a series of giant binders. As his father's health fails, the Dadbot gets better and better. Vlahos knows the Dadbot "will no doubt be a paltry low-resolution representation of the flesh-and-blood man," but he's still reasonably certain he can teach it to mimic his father's charm and humor. Most of "Talk to Me" is only tangentially related to the making of Dadbot; it's actually a deep history of the technology that made such a robot father possible, how we came to be on the cusp of truly conversational, natural-language technology that can hear and understand us, and talk back. "

"Dr. Lam is collaborating with a group of Stanford faculty members and students to build a virtual assistant that would allow individuals and corporations to avoid surrendering personal information as well as retain a degree of independence from giant technology companies." ... "The Stanford researchers are hoping to gain support by making their software freely available to users of smartphones, computers and consumer appliances. They are encouraging makers of consumer products to connect their devices to the Almond virtual assistant through a Wikipedia-style service they call Thingpedia. It is a shared database in which any manufacturer or internet service could specify how its product or service would interact with the Almond virtual assistant."