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Stephen Potter

@PotterAtWork

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

 Seattle, WA
Joined March 2018
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Brad Porter
@BradPorter_27 Mar 2023
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
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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.
Rob Drummond (@RobDrummond) profile pictureRob Drummond@RobDrummond16 Aug 2019
I always tell prospective students and parents at ⁦uni⁩ open days and on school visits that it’s hard to think of a career in which a deep and critical understanding of language and how it works *isn’t* of value. English is a subject that opens doors. theguardian.com/education/20…
'Students don't see the value': why A-level English is in decline

'Students don't see the value': why A-level English is in decline

Emphasis on Stem subjects and dull GCSE course blamed for fewer pupils taking exam

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“analog cyclists”
Gavin Lohry (@gavinlohry) profile pictureGavin Lohry@gavinlohry12 Aug 2019
"e-bikers take longer trips and get pretty much the same physical activity gains as analog cyclists." treehugger.com/bikes/study-f…
Study Finds That E-Bike Riders Get as Much Exercise as Riders of Regular Bikes

Study Finds That E-Bike Riders Get as Much Exercise as Riders of Regular Bikes

E-bikers use their bikes more, go longer distances, and often substitute it for driving or transit.

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"£HEllo::.£"
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Balaji
@balajis16 Jul 2019
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.
Norgard (@BrianNorgard) profile pictureNorgard@BrianNorgard16 Jul 2019
You can invent incentives but not new behaviors. Building failed products has taught me this one hundred times over.
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Alison Atwell@AlisonAtwell10 Jul 2019
One of many!: fortune.com/2019/07/10/amazo…
Meet Amazon's Real-Life Alexa | Fortune

Meet Amazon's Real-Life Alexa | Fortune

Meet the woman who teaches Amazon's Alexa how to talk.

fortune.com
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Moving towards a universal schema for dialogue acts
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USA friends - when the football match is over we can once again be mates.
All On The Board (@allontheboard) profile pictureAll On The Board@allontheboard2 Jul 2019
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
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Naval
@naval22 Jun 2019
Replying to @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.
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"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." venturebeat.com/2019/06/15/a… @kharijohnson
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Cake shop from another, better, dimension
Harriet Alida Lye (@harrietalida) profile pictureHarriet Alida Lye@harrietalida14 Jun 2019
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.
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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) profile pictureNick Bilton
@nickbilton10 Jun 2019
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.
We do the Turing Test different around here xitter.gq/bubbaprog/status/11377…
Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) profile pictureTimothy Burke@bubbaprog9 Jun 2019
tampabay.com/business/pasco-…
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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: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpa…)
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Delighted to host a panel on fairness in AI at the inaugural #remars #fairness #alexaai #ai
Carolina Milanesi (@caro_milanesi) profile pictureCarolina Milanesi
@caro_milanesi7 Jun 2019
#AI for everyone: promoting fairness in ethical AI #reMARS - you can tell this topic matters a lot to me
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Christian Vega@topvoiceapps5 Jun 2019
Replying to @alexadevs
"multiple skills into a single conversation"....woaaaah
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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 voicebot.ai/2019/06/06/alexa…

Alexa Conversations to Automate Elements of Skill Building Using AI and Make User Experiences More...

Amazon announced Alexa Conversations at the re:MARS conference yesterday in Las Vegas which is a new tool for Alexa skill..

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Truly conversational AI - the future just got here. amzn.to/2Kvjyey #AlexaAI
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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 remars.amazon.com/
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