Join us for the Golden Age of AI. The way that humans interact with machines is at an inflection point and conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of the transformation. Learn how Amazon is using machine learning and cloud computing to help fuel innovation in AI, making Alexa smarter every day. Alexa VP and Head Scientist Rohit Prasad presents the state of the science behind Amazon Alexa. He addresses advances in spoken language understanding and machine learning in Alexa, and shares how Amazon thinks about building the next generation of user experiences. He will announce the inaugural winner of the Alexa Prize and award the winning student team a check for $500,000.

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Alexa
THE GOLDEN AGE OF AI
R o h i t P r a s a d , V P a n d H e a d S c i e n t i s t
S t a t e o f t h e S c i e n c e

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WELCOME

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VIDEO OPENER - AI RETROSPECTIVE

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MAKING DEVELOPER & CUSTOMER
LIVES BETTER

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Easy to Build
You can invent new use cases and make your life and our customers lives better byy leading with
innovation: (visual presentation – snippets to show where appropriate)
• Progress on built-ins slots and intents
• SMAPI/CLI
• Dev portal redesign –making AI more accessible
• Democratization
• Phase slots
• Multi modal support
• Notifications
• Subscriptions – in Alexa purchases (Jeopardy) [CTA: learn more about the value to your business at
TT’s SOTU on Thursday]
• Simple re-weighting skill grammars (ASR Model Improvements):

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Easy to Discover
• Skill recommendations
• Alexa Proactive Skill Recommendations DEMO
• Arcadia/skill enablement (would want to check with the team on this) demo

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Easy to Interact
• Name free invocation with existing enablement
• Personalization / Speaker recognition (1P – work on differentiators from google – art to develop
list – AWS may announce that 3P may have this via moneypenny – make the connection also
consider use cases –video of where speaker id makes it better

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AI Sizzle Reel

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ALWAYS GETTING SMARTER
S

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A MORE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Demo

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DRIVING INNOVATION
More choices – More intelligent
• Large set of devices – always does the right thing when you speak
• ESP feature – multiple devices in the home
• Child directed skills – voice recognition broad range of voices understood
• Breadth of skills types, skill categorization
• health and wellness,
• games an entertainment
• domain coverage
• Our innovation in AI NLU ASR are making happen for you –Your Voice (personalization)
• Whole Home Audio
• Anaphora (pronouns)
• Contextual discourse (Spurs vs Spurs)
• Graphiq
• AVS (Sonos)

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GOING GLOBAL

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ALEXA PRIZE

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Q & A

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THANK YOU!
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