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Amazon-UCLA model wins coreference resolution challenge

Amazon just beat everyone at teaching AI to understand "that thing over there."

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Amazon's breakthrough in coreference resolution could give them a competitive edge in multimodal AI interfaces, making voice assistants and smart devices more intuitive for consumers.

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  1. Amazon-UCLA collaboration won coreference resolution challenge

  2. Model maps spoken language to objects in images

  3. Focus on multimodal device communication

  4. Competitive benchmark victory against other AI models

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Publisher excerpt: Models that map spoken language to objects in an image would make it easier for customers to communicate with multimodal devices.
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