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The Brainchip/Moschip joint demonstartion from May is still showing up on the first page of MOSCHIPs website.................
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I think I have missed some connections here, do you mind explaining to me why this Alexa/BMW deal excites you? Is it the fact it can do processing without internet connection hence maybe it’s Akida enabled? Get me excited Bravo! I want in on your hyperventilating. LolExcuse me for hyperventilating!!!!!! Please tell me I'm not dreaming!!!!!!
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Alexa Custom Assistant Will Power BMW’s Voice AI
Eric Hal Schwartz
on September 30, 2022 at 6:00 am
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BMW and Amazon revealed plans to build BMW’s next-generation voice assistant as an Alexa Custom Assistant platform. s annual Devices and Services launch event. A presentation at Amazon’s annual hardware event showcased how the collaboration will speed up the deployment while reducing costs for BMW, yet drivers will be able to interact with the BMW-branded assistant as though it were built in-house.
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“The Alexa technology will enable an even more natural dialogue between driver and vehicle, so drivers can stay focused on the road,” BMW senior vice president of development technical operations Stephan Durach said in announcing the new voice AI with Amazon devices and services business senior vice president Dave Limp. “This will bring the digital experience to an entirely new level.”
BMW didn’t explain how this will affect the recent extension of its long-term partnership with automotive voice AI developer Cerence. Cerence only recently shared its plans for a revamped version of its BMW voice assistant, set to arrive in the BMW 7 and i7 models this fall, The exact models for the Alexa-based assistant haven’t been announced yet. BMW and Amazon only said it would be in the next two years or so. The appeal of designing its voice AI as an Alexa Custom Assistant is not hard to see. It’s all of the customization benefits of independence but powered by all of Alexa’s Amazon support and regular updates. Plus, should BMW’s contributions fall short, the AI will turn to Alexa for help.
“Since we launched Alexa Custom Assistant last year, we’ve continued to improve the solution for automakers and developers. We’re particularly excited about some of the natural language and artificial intelligence advancements we’re delivering, including the capability to effortlessly build multilingual voice personas at scale and enabling uninterrupted voice interactions even when customers are in an area without connectivity,” Amazon smart vehicles vice president Anes Hodzic explained. “We’re also making it easier to create custom skills that are context-aware and proactive.”
BMW has been active in augmenting its voice AI platform with new features like Cerence’s driver-customized wake word. The Cerence deal hasn’t been exclusive, so different models may run on one or more voice AI systems. BMW made Google Assistant accessible in 2017, a year before Alexa became an option. Most recently, BMW began working on incorporating Google’s Android Automotive platform into at least some of its vehicles. It may just be that some of BMWs planned vehicles work best with Amazon’s approach to the technology.
“This cooperation with BMW is a great example of what Alexa Custom Assistant was designed for — to make it faster and easier for companies to develop custom intelligent assistants for virtually any device, without the cost and complexity of building from the ground up,” Limp said.
Alexa Custom Assistant Will Power BMW's Voice AI - Voicebot.ai
BMW and Amazon revealed plans to build BMW’s next-generation voice assistant as an Alexa Custom Assistant platform. A presentation at..voicebot.ai
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Pity they did not develop an antidope for seeing off WANCA’s. I believe that would sell out faster than new iPhones did ten years ago.Just a bit of Sunday night fun.
Has anyone noted this on the Brainchip site? The use of the word 'antidote'
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antidote
antidote
noun
an·ti·dote | \ ˈan-ti-ˌdōt \
Definition of antidote
1: a remedy to counteract the effects of poisonneeded the antidote for the snake's venom
2: something that relieves, prevents, or counteracts
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So basically Akida is a antidote to counteract computer energy usage, heat and latency.
Once again, Akida is here as a antidote to save the world.
It's safe to say Akida is an antidote and not a sauce.
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This is one of those lots of dots and wishful thinking type connections. The fact that Valeo is supplying ultrasonic sensors to BMW which it is likely have AKIDA onboard gets corporate cheeks rubbing up against each other hopefully in a romantic not uncomfortable fashion.I think I have missed some connections here, do you mind explaining to me why this Alexa/BMW deal excites you? Is it the fact it can do processing without internet connection hence maybe it’s Akida enabled? Get me excited Bravo! I want in on your hyperventilating. Lol
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https://appen.com/what-we-do/
https://appen.com/stateofai2022/?utm_souce=appen&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=pld0922
Hi Appen Tech Team,
I am private Investor with holdings in BrainChip (ASX:BRN)
www.brainchipinc.com
I'm sure you have heard of them, if not it looks like you guys should talk, in any Language of your choice!
sent to Appen today
https://appen.com/stateofai2022/?utm_souce=appen&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=pld0922
Hi Appen Tech Team,
I am private Investor with holdings in BrainChip (ASX:BRN)
www.brainchipinc.com
I'm sure you have heard of them, if not it looks like you guys should talk, in any Language of your choice!
sent to Appen today
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Hi Brainchip Sales team,
I sent this today to:
www.altium.com
Hi Altium Tech Team,
I am private Investor with holdings in BrainChip (ASX:BRN)
www.brainchipinc.com
I'm sure you have heard of them, if not it looks like you guys should talk
I sent this today to:
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Altium Designer enables engineers to effortlessly connect with every facet of the electronics design process. Over 35 years of innovation and development focused on a truly unified design environment makes it the most widely used PCB design solution.
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I am private Investor with holdings in BrainChip (ASX:BRN)
www.brainchipinc.com
I'm sure you have heard of them, if not it looks like you guys should talk
HopalongPetrovski
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I used to love their muesli. Must have been before they got into chips............
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I'm so with you on this. Just waiting for someone to pay an invoice.
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IMO. Small time manipulators having a little push and play on a quiet low volume day on the schmarket.
Know they won't get much but a nice setup if further pain in America tonight.
They are hoping to welcome us to their nightmare.
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BMW have already partnered with another Neuromorphic AI provider SynSense earlier this year. So I think anything at this stage regarding BMW is wishful thinking.
University of Groningen to develop applications for SynSense’s Neuromorphic hardware | SynSense
Professor Elisabetta Chicca, colleague Thorben Schoepe and a robot that has a neuromorphic vision processor inspired by the fly brain. (Source: Marleen Annema, University of Groningen) SynSense and CogniGron / University of Groningen are today announcing a collaboration to evaluate the low-power...
www.synsense-neuromorphic.com
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BMW have already partnered with another Neuromorphic AI provider SynSense earlier this year. So I think anything at this stage regarding BMW is wishful thinking.
University of Groningen to develop applications for SynSense’s Neuromorphic hardware | SynSense
Professor Elisabetta Chicca, colleague Thorben Schoepe and a robot that has a neuromorphic vision processor inspired by the fly brain. (Source: Marleen Annema, University of Groningen) SynSense and CogniGron / University of Groningen are today announcing a collaboration to evaluate the low-power...
Well who really knows... Hmmm
BMW have already partnered with another Neuromorphic AI provider SynSense earlier this year. So I think anything at this stage regarding BMW is wishful thinking.
University of Groningen to develop applications for SynSense’s Neuromorphic hardware | SynSense
Professor Elisabetta Chicca, colleague Thorben Schoepe and a robot that has a neuromorphic vision processor inspired by the fly brain. (Source: Marleen Annema, University of Groningen) SynSense and CogniGron / University of Groningen are today announcing a collaboration to evaluate the low-power...
The SynSense/BMW arrangement is exploratory, ie, BMW are testing SynSense technology.
"This exploration with BMW in the area of neuromorphic technology will focus on SynSense’s dynamic visual intelligence SoC––Speck, which combines in one single chip SynSense’s low-power SNN vision processor with an event-based sensor. It performs both neuromorphic sensing and computing , and utilizes full asynchronous circuit design. It can be used to capture real-time visual information, recognize and detect objects, and perform other vision-based detection and interaction functions."
So that leaves the door open for better solutions.
Having Swiss origins, SynSense started out in 2017 with analog SNNs and were still going down that path in 2021:
CN113255905A Signal processing method for neurons in spiking neural network and network training method
The invention discloses a signal processing method for neurons in a spiking neural network and a network training method. Different from a single-pulse mechanism which is commonly used at present, the multi-pulse mechanism is designed. The neuron signal processing method comprises the following steps: a receiving step: at least one neuron receives at least one path of input pulse sequence; an accumulation step: performing weighted summation based on the at least one path of input pulse sequence to obtain a membrane voltage; and an activation step: when the membrane voltage exceeds a threshold value, determining the amplitude of the pulse excited by the neuron based on the ratio of the membrane voltage to the threshold value. In order to solve the problems of time consumption and low efficiency of a training algorithm caused by an increasing configuration parameter scale, efficient training of the spiking neural network is realized through technical means such as a multi-pulse mechanism, a periodic exponential function proxy gradient and addition of a neuron active inhibition degree as loss, and low power consumption of simulated hardware can still be maintained; and the technical effects of improving the precision and the convergence speed and the like are also brought.
I don't know if SynSense have solutions for the manufacturing variability which plagues analog SNNs.
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I don’t want to appear to be saying there is an agreement but this is illustrative of how things are not always what they might appear:BMW have already partnered with another Neuromorphic AI provider SynSense earlier this year. So I think anything at this stage regarding BMW is wishful thinking.
University of Groningen to develop applications for SynSense’s Neuromorphic hardware | SynSense
Professor Elisabetta Chicca, colleague Thorben Schoepe and a robot that has a neuromorphic vision processor inspired by the fly brain. (Source: Marleen Annema, University of Groningen) SynSense and CogniGron / University of Groningen are today announcing a collaboration to evaluate the low-power...
SynSense and Prophesee develop one-chip event-based smart sensing solution
Partnership leverages respective leadership in neuromorphic computing and sensing to realize on-sensor processing integration leading to small form-factor, low-power and cost-effective IoT solutions
Then in what might have been considered impossible Prophesee announces a partnership with Brainchip to “better serve” their customers needs.
As I pointed out before writing something off you need to read all the announcements around BMW and SynSense and it is clear they are not locked in but are exploring possibilities.
I think personally it is wishful thinking to believe that an inferior technology has grasped the opportunity away from Brainchip as many did when Prophesee made its SynSense announcement last year.
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The inclusion of Prophesee is particularly interesting, as SynSense talk of their Speck "which combines in one single chip SynSense’s low-power SNN vision processor with an event-based sensor."
Prophesee has the only DVS/event camera in production, so it seems that SynSense is combining its SNN with a Prophesee event camera.
Even if this were to be successful, there is still radar and LiDaR.
"This exploration with BMW in the area of neuromorphic technology will focus on SynSense’s dynamic visual intelligence SoC––Speck"
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Strange. To my untrained abilities it looks like Synsense has only 2 as yet not granted patent applications, and that after forming an alliance with Prophesee late last year, Prophesee has much more recently formed an alliance with BRN.
Perhaps Prophesee weren't getting what they wanted from Synsense, or perhaps Synsense weren't licensed?
Confirmation greatly appreciated.
Hi Iseki,
There are 3 Chinese only applications and two PCT applications by SynSense.
As to the SynSense/prophesee partnership, as you now can see @Fact Finder is in agreement with your hypothesis.
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There are five other issues to consider when looking at the question of SynSense as a legitimate competitor to Brainchip:
1. SynSense has deep and pervasive links to China - https://www.northdata.com/?id=6093567565 ;
2. Prophesee is working in the NASA/DARPA space;
3. SynSense is a venture backed private company unconstrained by the likes of the ASX & SEC as to what it can announce and the claims it makes in such announcements;
4. BMW has strong and historical links with NASA;
5. BRAINCHIP is a qualified customer/ research partner of both NASA and DARPA.
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1. SynSense has deep and pervasive links to China - https://www.northdata.com/?id=6093567565 ;
2. Prophesee is working in the NASA/DARPA space;
3. SynSense is a venture backed private company unconstrained by the likes of the ASX & SEC as to what it can announce and the claims it makes in such announcements;
4. BMW has strong and historical links with NASA;
5. BRAINCHIP is a qualified customer/ research partner of both NASA and DARPA.
My opinion only DYOR
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