What do you think about this Bloomberg report about Amazon using humans to review some Alexa user utterances to improve the ASR and NLU performance?https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone-listening-to-you-on-alexa-a-global-team-reviews-audio …
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Replying to @bretkinsella
Bret, this is a regrettable situation on many levels. The optics are horrendous as folks trade sound files of private utterances on message boards. This is not privacy. If I was at these companies this would not happen. There are effective ways to do this right. This is wrong.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @bretkinsella
In fairness, you wouldn’t be at these companies. I love the idea of a noble knight stopping the craziness, but that isn’t reality. Many strong, intelligent and ethical people (engineers/scientists) have left these companies because of these practices after failing to change them.
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Replying to @NoelleSilver_ @bretkinsella
Noelle, thank you. Indeed this is the reality. I truly wish it was not. You and I and everyone in the
#VoiceFirst community are building something entirely unique in history. It is built on the foundations of trust (open microphone/camera) these shenanigans set us back by years.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @BrianRoemmele @bretkinsella
Exactly, I am given hope by the countless companies that have been started by people like us, to do things a different way, with ethics and integrity. It is, for certain, the road less traveled.
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Noelle, yes! This is it precisely. The ancient ways of tech business models are just as disreputable as the ancient QWERTY Interface. Why I feel certain that a company that is founded on first premises of privacy and #VoiceFirst is likely and will flourish.
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