If you’re listening to podcasts on Amazon Music, you may soon get AI assistance. Amazon reportedly acquired Snackable AI late last year. This audio intelligence startup’s technology automatically generates highlights and chapters for audio and video clips.
“In December 2022, Snackable will join Amazon to continue innovating and exploring new experiences on behalf of Amazon Music’s podcast customers,” said Snackable AI’s LinkedIn page. On that page, Snackable’s website is simply listed as an Amazon Music page.
Snackable AI CEO and Founder Mari Joller’s LinkedIn page lists her work as Amazon’s AI and Machine Learning Product Lead. “I build AI-powered products at Amazon Music Podcasts. Previously, she was the founder and CEO of Snackable AI, an audio intelligence startup,” her page says.
As the New York Post pointed out on Friday, a listing on the Product Hunt forum says Snackable AI will instantly scan long audio clips to create “chapters, highlights, and more.” This makes it easy to find specific information or segments from a podcast without having to listen to the entire episode.
We’ve reached out to Amazon for comment, but have yet to hear back.
Amazon Web Services last month launched a new cloud service called Amazon Bedrock, designed to help businesses and developers use artificial intelligence to improve their software. AWS also made generally available Amazon CodeWhisperer, an AI coding companion. According to AWS, the free CodeWhisperer is the fastest, most accurate and secure way to generate code for Amazon services.
As AI becomes more sophisticated, so does its prevalence. Amazon is just one of many tech companies stepping into AI with chatbots and capabilities. In addition, Microsoft GoogleMozilla, Duck Duck Go, Alibaba and snapchat. Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk has also reportedly founded an artificial intelligence company called X.AI.
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US Vice President Kamala Harris met with the CEOs of Google, Microsoft and ChatGPT on Thursday, Risks associated with using AI.
“What you’re doing has huge potential and huge danger,” Biden told CEOs. according to the video he tweeted.
In a letter signed by Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and others at the end of March, he called on the lab to halt the development of artificial intelligence for at least six months, citing “serious risks” to society. had requested.
This follows the public debut of OpenAI’s GPT-4, a massive language model update that powers ChatGPT chatbots. According to OpenAI, GPT-4 has fewer flaws than its predecessor, produces more nuanced results, and handles more complex tasks. ChatGPT takes advantage of the massive data sets used to train GPT-4 to answer questions and perform tasks such as passing the bar exam.
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