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Here's the #ConvAInews again!

▪ Yesterday we had a Community Call with Boris Galitsky, dedicated to the method of managing the dialogue in a chatbot based on discursive text analysis. If you didn't manage to get to our webinar, you can watch the recording on YouTube.

▪ New research by Luis Piloto and colleagues at Princeton University takes a step to make the computer compete with the common sense abilities of a typically developing infant. The researchers created a deep-learning artificial intelligence (AI) system that acquired an understanding of some common-sense laws of the physical world. More about it you can find here.

▪ Transformers achieve state-of-the-art performance for NLP, and are becoming popular for a myriad of other tasks. They are computationally expensive which has been a blocker to their widespread productionisation. How to use the BetterTransformer, read in the article by Pytorch.

▪ Amazon last week announced new tools and programs for third-party Alexa skill developers to grow their user base, increase retention, generate revenue, and keep more of what they earn. While Google is retreating from its third-party voice app developer ecosystem with the sunsetting of conversational actions for the Assistant, Amazon is extending its investment.

Hello everyone!

Have you ever dreamed of becoming
a part of a truly massive project and changing the world?
Now is the right time to do so😊

At DeepPavlov.ai we are looking for talents - those who are ready to join our team and develop a conversational AI technology stack that helps users around the world build simple chatbots and complex AI assistants.

Here are several open positions:
• • Software Engineer (Python), DeepPavlov Dream,
• • Software Engineer (Python), DeepPavlov Agent,
• • Software Engineer (Python), Dev Tools/DF Designer,
• • Software Engineer (Frontend), Dev Tools/DF Designer,
• • Software Engineer Intern (Python, Java), Applied Research.

We are really looking forward to hearing from you!

#jobs

Hello, everyone!

Daniel Kornev, CPO of DeepPavlov.ai, will be a speaker at the PyData conference in Yerevan. This event will be held this Friday.

Daniel will make a presentation on the topic: “Building your own Multiskill AI Assistant with DeepPavlov”.

Time: 15:30 pm (GMT +4)

Please join us and learn more about simple and complex chatbots’ development with DeepPavlov.ai ☺️

You can find out more details below:
https://yerevan2022.pydata.org/cfp/talk/39PYW3.ics

#events #conferences #convai

Hi, friends!
This is our regular #ConvAInews!
 
◾️Daniel Kornev, CPO of DeepPavlov.ai, will be a speaker at the PyData conference in Yerevan today at 3:30 pm (GMT+4). He will tell how to build your own Multiskill AI Assistant with DeepPavlov. Here is the link with the details. Please join us!

◾️Gizmodo made a sum-up of the last 20 years of DARPA's work. They dug into DARPA's history to suss out the agency's most significant, sometimes scary research from the last two decades.

◾️Meta has released BlenderBot 3, an advanced bot responder dataset, which can engage with humans more naturally while utilizing more prompts to guide users along a specific path of inquiry. 

◾️Google introduced a web version of its popular Read Along educational app for teaching children to read. The website includes Read Along the virtual assistant Diya, a voice-enabled AI guiding and correcting kids as they practice reading.

Stay tuned!

Hello, everyone!

Today, Denis Kuznetsov, researcher at DeepPavlov.ai, will make a presentation on the topic: "Dialog Flow Framework: Overview".

He will talk about a young ambitious Dialog Flow Framework (DFF), an open source framework created for the development of modern dialog systems. DFF is easy to learn and is aimed at using machine learning models.

Denis will tell about DFF and cover the following topics:

〰️ Using DFF, it's easy to assemble the dialog assistant as a constructor using databases and channels through which messages come.
〰️ DFF has a set of tools for collecting and visualizing statistics of user behavior - for further analysis of the system and improvement.
〰️ DFF supports python as the main writing tool, but it also develops software for DFF in the manner of no-code\low-code development of dialog assistants.
〰️DFF is also actively developing solutions aimed at building a dialog assistant based on dialog data, with specified restrictions and with minimal human involvement in the development of a dialog system.

Date: 19 August (today!), 07:00 pm (GMT +3)
Here is the link on today’s seminar.

Please join us and learn more about simple and complex chatbots’ development with DeepPavlov.ai ☺️

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Hello friends,

Unfortunately, several days ago we lost access to our repositories on GitHub.
Luckily, our DeepPavlov Library and other projects we hardly worked on during the last 4 years survived.

You can find them here:

GitHub repo: https://github.com/deeppavlovteam/DeepPavlov
Gitee: https://gitee.com/organizations/mirrors_deepmipt/

We need your support as never before and kindly ask you to star us on GitHub!

Please stay tuned for updates!

CV-Multimodality Engineer at DeepPavlov.ai

DeepPavlov is an open source conversational AI framework. We aim to help developers all over the world create chatbots, dialog systems, and Multiskill and assistants in a faster and easier way.

We are looking for an experienced researcher to work with computer vision models (CV) and models' architectures. The main task is to introduce the vision modality into dialog systems, and then work with a team building multimodal dialog systems.

If you have 2+ years of the experience with CV models, and the ability to write efficient, clean, readable code, you're the perfect candidate!

Here you can check details about the position:
https://deeppavlov.ai/careers/tpost/edgfl6htt1-cv-multimodality-engineer

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Hi, friends!
This is our regular #ConvAInews!

◾️Amazon Web Services team has made strides this summer in the CCaaS space. They have added new workforce management, call transcription, and conversational AI features to its contact center as a service platform.

◾️ Meta has introduced Velox, an open source unified execution engine aimed at accelerating data management systems and streamlining their development. Velox provides value by unifying the execution engines across different data computation engines. The three most popular integrations are Presto, Spark, and TorchArrow/PyTorch.

◾️ Yellow.ai has released DynamicNLP, a sophisticated natural language processing (NLP) solution that will power its conversational AI offerings. You can find more about it here.

◾️ Microsoft is teaching computers to understand cause and effect. Causal machine learning with Microsoft's next-best-question model could replace AB testing to help you make better business decisions. You can find more about it here.

Stay tuned!

Hi, friends!

Daniel Kornev, CPO of DeepPavlov.ai, shared an opinion with AIbusiness.com on the topic: "Why open source is key to the future of Conversational AI".

Corporations could not pull something on the market until it's fully polished. Cooperation and joint efforts significantly drive innovation, and open source is the only way to develop great products and learn by making mistakes.

Do you want to learn more about other reasons why open source is crucial in ConvAi? Read the whole piece here.

Hello, everyone!

Maria Molchanova, Research Product Manager of DeepPavlov.ai, will be a speaker at the Open Data conference. Open Data is a platform where representatives of science, business and society meet every year. This event will be held this Friday in Saint-Petersburg.

Maria will be a speaker at technological track "Big Data&AI", and she will make a presentation on the topic: “DeepPavlov Dream: on the way to common datasets and conversational AI”.

Please join us and learn more about simple and complex chatbots’ development with DeepPavlov.ai ☺️

You can find out more details below:
https://opendata2021.ru/

#events #conferences #convai

Hi, friends!
This is our regular #ConvAInews!

◾️ Daniel Kornev, CPO of DeepPavlov.ai, had the pleasure to be a guest on the Applied AI Podcast by Justin Grammens! Such an interesting talk about today and the future of Conversational AI! Follow the link to listen to the podcast.

◾️ Google AI Introduced ‘TensorStore,’ An Open-Source C++ And Python Library Designed For Reading And Writing Large Multi-Dimensional Arrays. Fundamental engineering problems in scientific computing linked to the management and processing of enormous datasets in neuroscience have already been resolved using Google’s TensorStore.

◾️ DeepMind’s new chatbot uses Google searches plus humans to give better answers. The lab trained a chatbot to learn from human feedback and search the internet for information to support its claims.

◾️ UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts just gave its ultra-realistic looking humanoid robot Ameca a voice. The company showed off Ameca having a conversation with a number of the company's engineers, a courtesy of a speech synthesizer and OpenAI's GPT 3, cutting-edge language model that uses deep learning to generate impressively human-like text.

◾️ OpenAI Starts Letting DALL-E 2 Users Edit Faces on Synthetic Images. People using OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 text-to-image engine can now upload and edit people’s faces.

Stay tuned!

Hello, everyone!

We are happy to share with you a new article about the #DREAM Dialogue Assistant 🔥

In this article, we highlighted the role of of Knowledge Base-specific Annotators for the utterances’ analysis within the DREAM dialogue assistant.

Follow the link to read the article, and don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or comments!

Hi, friends!
This is our regular #ConvAInews!

◾️ In october we published a new article about the #Dream AI Assistant Platform. In this article, we highlighted the role of of Knowledge Base-specific Annotators for the utterances’ analysis within the Dream AI Platform. Follow the link to read the article.

◾️ Children’s speech recognition technology startup SoapBox Labs has become the first edtech company to receive a stamp of approval for its work against racial bias in technology. You can find more about it here

◾️ Synthetic voice developer Play.ht published an imaginary conversation between Apple founder Steve Jobs, who died 11 years ago, and Joe Rogan this week. AI-generated voice clones of Rogan and Jobs gave deepfake voice to a script composed using OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model for the first episode of the new “Podcast.ai” show.

◾️ Google Assistant will be improved and augmented with new features as part of its integration into the new Pixel Watch and Pixel 7 smartphone line. Google introduced the upgrades, showcasing better voice typing and new smart home connections for its latest products.

Stay tuned!

Hi, friends!
This is our regular #ConvAInews!

◾️ Last week we made a 1.0.0 release of DeepPavlov.ai Library. In this version TensorFlow-based models were replaced with PyTorch-based ones, some models were renamed, and various models and components were removed. Also, we improved several models: Entity Linking, Context Question Answering, NER, and Classifier models. Moreover, we added Python 3.8/3.9 support, case-agnostic distill NER for DREAM, DeepPavlov Topics Classifier model, and Russian SuperGLUE models. You can find more about it here.

◾️ An article about BLOOM, A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model, has been finally published. It was designed and built thanks to a collaboration of hundreds of researchers. BLOOM achieves competitive performance on a wide variety of benchmarks, with stronger results after undergoing multitask prompted finetuning. You can find more about it here.

◾️ Google has Beta-launched its text-to-image AI model after the wave of text-to-image models whose creations have flooded the internet this year. It’s called Imagen. But unlike those released by Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, the internet giant is taking a cautious approach by offering users a limited taste inside its AI Test Kitchen. The version available inside AI Test Kitchen has two functions for users to play with, City Dreamer and Wobble.

◾️ MTV India introduced AI-powered virtual rapper ‘Bot Hard’ as its latest star. Bot Hard uses a specially trained version of OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model to produce its raps. The developers filtered the AI’s training specifically to look for rhymes and rhythms that mimic current rap stars, with continued use continuing to refine its creations.

◾️ Developer combined three AI systems - Stable Diffusion, Whisper and GPT-3 - to create a futuristic design assistant. Developers can have simple conversations with the assistant and give it instructions for image ideas. The assistant confirms the instructions and either carries them out directly or asks queries to clarify them.

◾️ Marketing content creation firm Simplified introduced an AI text-to-image generator. The new tool combines OpenAI’s DALL-E and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion synthetic media services enabling its clients to produce visuals from a written prompt.

Stay tuned!

Hello, everyone!

Daniel Kornev, CPO at DeepPavlov.ai, and Denis Kuznetsov, Researcher at DeepPavlov.ai, will share their expertise at Conversations 2022, one of the most popular conferences in ConvAI organized by our friends from Just AI. They will tell about the approaches to the automatic construction of dialog scripts together with controlled generation.

Conversations is an annual conference about voice assistants, chatbots, and the technologies behind them. More than 40 experts and visionaries from academia and business will speak at the event.

Daniel Kornev and Denis Kuznetsov will take part in the Technology track with the presentation on the topic “Using Deep Learning to create controlled scalable dialog systems”.

The presentation will be focused on a scenario-based approach. This is the oldest approach for dialogue systems development that has its pros and cons. DeepPavlov.ai experts will highlight both and reveal tactics you can use to combine the controllability of the scenario-based approach with scaling up possibilities by using generative language models, as well as automatic script construction..

Date: 2nd December 2022
Join us at Conversations 2022 and register below:
https://conversations-ai.com/

Hello, everyone!

Daniel Kornev, CPO at DeepPavlov.ai, will share his expertise at AI Journey 2022. AI journey is an international conference for discussing the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies

Daniel Kornev will take part in the Science track with the presentation on the topic “Making a small step beyond text and voice-based Conversational AI with DeepPavlov Dream Builder and Dream for Robotics”. He will talk about the current state and vision of the development of the conversational AI-platform, the DeepPavlov project, and the developments in the field of robotics.

Also, researchers from DeepPavlov.ai will present scientific posters in the field of artificial intelligence/machine learning:
◾️Kseniya Petukhova, Junior Researcher II at DeepPavlov.ai, will present the topic: “Goal Tracker & Dialog Games for Human Goals in Open-Domain Conversations”. In this work, we propose a first goal-aware prototype of DREAM Socialbot.
◾️ Dilyara Zharikova, Senior Researcher at DeepPavlov.ai, and Dmitry Kosenko, Junior Researcher I at DeepPavlov.ai, will present the topic: “Utilize knowledge and persona for dialogue response generation”. The proposed approach achieved a state-of-the-art result at The 1st Workshop on Customized Chat Grounding Persona @ COLING 2022.

Date: 23d November 2022
Join us at AI Journey and register below:
https://ai-journey.ru/

Hi, friends!
Welcome to #ConvAInews again!

◾️ Recently, we published an article about DeepPavlov Scenario-Driven Skills. In this article, we highlighted the role of Speech Functions in making dialogs with DeepPavlov Dream Socialbot smoothly and naturally. Follow the link to read the article.

◾️ We are happy to share a new article about Russian SuperGLUE models using the DeepPavlov.ai library. This article describes how Russian SuperGLUE solutions can be used by academy and IT companies. Feel free to click on the link to find out more (available in Russian).

◾️ Amazon released new “Create with Alexa tool” which can synthesize animated stories from children's prompts. It plays the stories on Echo Show smart displays using a child’s responses to a few questions when they ask the voice assistant to “make a story” for them.

◾️ New Caltech research shows how devices implanted into people’s brains, called brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), could one day help patients who have lost their ability to speak. A new brain-machine interface is the most accurate to date at predicting a person’s internal monologue.

◾️ Last week, OpenAI opened for testing ChatGPT. This chatbot can write jokes, computer code, college-level essays, and much more. During the first week of release, more than a million people signed up to test it, and hundreds of screenshots of ChatGPT conversations went viral on Twitter.

Stay tuned!

Hello, everyone!

We are happy to share with you our most complete curriculum for the development of multiskill AI assistants using the #Dream Platform 🔥

In this article you’ll find out how to get started building your multiskill ConversationalAI assistants with the DeepPalov Dream. We collected a full list of all essential materials that will guide you through the development of your own AI Assistant.

Follow the link to read the article, and don't hesitate to make your own Multiskill ConvAI assistant with DeepPavlov Dream!

Hi, friends!
Welcome to #ConvAInews again!

◾️ Recently, we published an article with our most complete curriculum for the development of multiskill AI assistants. In this article, you’ll find out how to get started building your multiskill ConversationalAI assistants with the DeepPalov Dream. Follow the link to read the article.

◾️ Amazon released new Alexa features for the Echo Show — smart display allowing users to control the voice assistant through gestures and typing. For instance, users can now dismiss timers with a wave of their hand, tap out words that the voice assistant will speak on their behalf, or enable universal captioning in one command.

◾️ DeepBrain AI launched an interactive, synthetic version of the America’s Got Talent host — Howie Mandel. “AI Howie” replicates how the real actor looks, speaks, and moves, allowing for realistic videos and even real-time interactions with his digital counterpart in web browsers, metaverse virtual worlds.

◾️ SoapBox Labs and Early Bird Education partnered on a project to spot and diagnose dyslexia in children. Soapbox will augment EarlyBird’s dyslexia screener with its speech recognition AI to measure a child’s oral language skills and potentially figure out any obstacles to their learning how to read even before they begin.

Stay tuned!

Hello, everyone!

The DeepPavlov team built a platform for designing multiskill AI assistants – DeepPavlov Dream. It works with different environments, from texts to entire virtual worlds. We made several demo to show you how you can benefit from developing your own multiskill AI assistant with DeepPavlov Dream.

1. First video demonstrates how ConvAI can help the user in Minecraft. Our virtual assistant DeepPavlova is an AI-driven NPC building the blockhenges in Minecraft following the user’s lead. It perfectly navigates through the environment, recognizes different objects, and acts. DeepPavlova can keep a conversation in an open domain and perform simple tasks.

2. Second video shows how virtual assistants can be used in the metaverses.The user can simply talk to a virtual assistant about the Beatles, and learn their history in the Roomful metaverse. The idea of the project was to create a Virtual Assistant that could keep up a conversation on any Beatles-related topic and take the user on a museum tour to expand the Roomful user experience.

3. Third video shows how our virtual assistant can control the actions of the robot in real life. The robot does all tasks correctly: goes back and forward, rotates clockwise and counterclockwise.

It’s only 3 examples of how you can build virtual assistants on top of DeepPavlov Dream. Don’t hesitate to build your own virtual assistant!