“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech
publicdomainreview.orgI thought this would be about the TTS system in early versions of Android.
This is very much a tangent inspired by the title: Where can i best keep track of what is going on in embodied AI? I feel there's been a lot of development there recently but I've lost track and I'm not sure which companies besides the big ones are working on interesting solutions?
Depends how narrowly you want to focus on embodied.
I follow TWIML&AI and Two Minute Papers, but both are much broader than just embodied though they do cover it:
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-twiml-ai-podcast-f...
Pre-silicon automatons are on my shortlist of things to buy/commission and play with if I ever somehow become a billionaire.
The writer automaton is something I've been utterly fascinated by for decades. It feels anachronistic; people without silicon chips and transistors shouldn't have automatic programmable robots! It required a level of genius that I'll never have but can really appreciate.
We take for granted how comparatively easy transistors made everything. I love seeing people's workarounds to try and reach the future.
Just bought these two books… I’ve been collecting early works in AI. These are early!