Hey Cyba - The Inner Workings of a Virtual Personal Assistant

Reveals how AI works and provides insight into what we can expect of it now and in the future.

List of contents

1. May I introduce myself?; 2. My inner workings; 3. How my brain works; 4. Knowing what I know; 5. What did you say?; 6. What does that mean?; 7. What should I say next?; 8. Listen to me; 9. How do you say that in...?; 10. Let's chat; 11. Can you trust me?; 12. When all is quiet; 13. Future upgrades and beyond; Glossary; Notes; Index.

About the author

Steve Young has more than 40 years of research experience in speech processing and AI. He founded a number of speech technology startups including Entropic acquired by Microsoft in 1999 and VocalIQ acquired by Apple in 2015, following which he worked in the Apple Siri Development team. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IET and the IEEE. He holds an IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award, the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement, a European Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award and the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.

Summary

To understand the future of artificial intelligence, you need to understand how it works. Told through the eyes of a fictitious virtual assistant called Cyba, this book reveals in depth how AI works and provides insight into the extent to which we can trust it both now and in the future.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Young, Steve (University of Cambridge) Young, Young Steve
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108838818
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83881-8
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Artificial Intelligence, popular science, SCIENCE / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), COMPUTERS / Networking / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Communication Studies, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Engineering: general, Computational Linguistics, Natural language & machine translation, Computer networking & communications, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, Natural language and machine translation, Computational and corpus linguistics, Computer networking and communications