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This episode we have a special guest Dr. Rituraj Kunwar, resident AI expert of the Emergent Technologies team here at Deakin. Alan, Veronica and Raj get together to discuss Natural Language Understanding (NLU)- the underlying technology that allows Siri, Alexa and Google Home to "talk" to us.We talk about its many applications, the NLU models of big enterprises like Google and Amazon and find the reason behind why so many of them are named after the Muppets!Links:What is NLP? What are its applications? -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Language_processing,https://towardsdatascience.com/your-guide-to-natural-language-processing-nlp-48ea2511f6e1Georgetown-IBM Experiment, 1954- http://www.mt-archive.info/Garvin-1967.pdfSentiment Analysis- https://towardsdatascience.com/sentiment-analysis-concept-analysis-and-applications-6c94d6f58c17Why are so many AI Systems named after the Muppets? - https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/11/20993407/ai-language-models-muppets-sesame-street-muppetware-elmo-bert-ernie andhttps://dnyuz.com/2019/12/11/why-are-so-many-ai-systems-named-after-muppets/Google General Language Model “Meena”- https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/towards-conversational-agent-that-can.htmlAmazon "Kendra"- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-amazon-kendra-reinventing-enterprise-search-with-machine-learning/Deakin Genie- http://genie.deakin.edu.au/

We're back and we're better! Alan and Veronica take a deep dive through the team's work in Digital Identity this week!

This week we dive into mind-controlled exoskeletons, minimalist mobile phones and micro credentials. Links:AI ServiceNow - https://www.servicenow.com/products/predictive-intelligence.htmlThe Things Network - https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/Meshed - meshed.com.auIoT Atlas - iotatlas.netAWS Well Architected Framework - https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/Turtlebot - https://www.turtlebot.com/Turtlebot Emergent Tech team review video - https://futured.deakin.edu.au/turtlebot-waffle-pi-3-review-part-i/Mind-controlled exoskeleton - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(19)30321-7/fulltext?utm_campaign=TLNExoSkelVid&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=socialSynchron brain interface - https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/synchron-kicks-off-clinical-trial-for-brain-machine-interface-without-drilling-skullsEcho Loop titanium smart ring -https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JPK4XJ6/Echo frames smart glasses - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G62GWS4Mudita minimalist mobile phone - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mudita/mudita-pure-your-minimalist-phoneMaking microcredentials work exec summary - http://dteach.deakin.edu.au/2019/08/02/microcredentials/

Hello listeners! This week, we're talking about air taxis, robot ice cream vendors, our visit to the Telstra Vantage Conference in Melbourne and human machine interfaces!Links:Igloo Vision home page - https://www.igloovision.com/Igloo Vision at Vantage - https://exchange.telstra.com.au/australias-first-live-5g-broadcast-and-what-5g-could-mean-for-entertainment/Making microcredentials work exec summary - http://dteach.deakin.edu.au/2019/08/02/microcredentials/Fjord trends - https://trends.fjordnet.com/Lexus, Telstra - connected vehicle trial set to make roads safer - https://exchange.telstra.com.au/australian-first-lexus-connected-vehicle-trial-set-to-make-roads-safer/Telstra Intelligent Water Management - https://www.telstra.com.au/business-enterprise/industries/utilities/intelligent-water-managementTelstra Purple - https://www.telstra.com.au/business-enterprise/services/telstra-purpleRobo traffic cones - https://www.transurban.com/news/robo-cones-trial-citylinkBernard Salt - https://www.bernard-salt.com.autemi personal robot - https://www.robotemi.com/https://futured.deakin.edu.au/temi-the-robot/McDonald's AI powered drive thru ordering - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49664633Natural Language Processing - https://becominghuman.ai/a-simple-introduction-to-natural-language-processing-ea66a1747b32Microsoft Hololens gestures - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/gesturesEye tracking - https://www.tobii.com/tech/technology/what-is-eye-tracking/AI in Microsoft 365 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DNef_iPjg4Elon Musk's Neura Link - https://www.neuralink.com/John Hopkins University - mind controlled prosthetic limbs - www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2jU0Q

This week, Alan and Veronica discuss Huawei's HarmonyOS and Traces AI along with a deep dive into Digital Twins and an exciting segment about jobs of the future!Links:Traces AI developing less intrusive alternative to facial tracking - https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/15/traces-ai-is-building-a-less-invasive-alternative-to-facial-recognition-tracking/Trace AI - https://traces.ai/HarmonyOS (Huawei's android alternative) - https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/harmonyos-huawei-release/ and https://www.itnews.com.au/news/huawei-unveils-harmony-operating-system-wont-ditch-android-for-smartphones-529432https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/huawei-hires-trade-lobbyists-as-sales-slow-in-u-s-china-fight100 Jobs of the future - https://100jobsofthefuture.com/browse/Digital Twins-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twinhttps://www.entrepreneur.com/article/331548https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-twin-defined-michael-grieves/https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/501625main_TA12-MSMSM-DRAFT-Nov2010-A.pdfhttps://marketplace.city/p/3dexperiencity/https://www.ns-businesshub.com/technology/digital-twin-examples-formula1-singapore/

Join our hosts Alan and Veronica for the first episode ever for the Deakin University Emergent Tech podcast. We're talking about the FTC's verdict on Facebook's privacy lapses, Microsoft's investment in OpenAI, MIT and IBM's AI Portraits app, Palm Vein pattern recognition technology, Apple's latest AR platform: RealityKit and Reality Composer and AI at The Edge.Links:Facebook FTC decision – https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/24/20707013/ftc-facebook-settlement-data-cambridge-analytica-penalty-privacy-punishment-5-billionResearchers spotlight the lie of ‘anonymous’ data – https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/researchers-spotlight-the-lie-of-anonymous-data/OpenAI – https://www.openai.com/Open AI Charter – https://www.openai.com/charter/Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI in new multiyear partnership – https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/22/microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-openai-in-new-multiyear-partnership/AI Portraits – https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ai-portraitsAerVision and AerPalm – http://www.aervision.com/RealityKit, Reality Composer and ARKit 3 – https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/