{"id":62814,"date":"2018-03-03T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T15:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=62814"},"modified":"2018-03-03T10:35:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T15:35:31","slug":"scientists-are-turning-alexa-into-an-automated-lab-helper-condliffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/03\/03\/scientists-are-turning-alexa-into-an-automated-lab-helper-condliffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Turning Alexa into an Automated Lab Helper [Condliffe]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists Are Turning Alexa into an Automated Lab Helper<\/strong> <\/a>— from technologyreview.com by Jamie Condliffe
\nAmazon\u2019s voice-activated assistant follows a rich tradition of researchers using consumer tech in unintended ways to further their work.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

Alexa, what\u2019s the next step in my titration?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Probably not the first question you ask your smart assistant in the morning, but potentially the kind of query that scientists may soon be leveling at Amazon\u2019s AI helper. Chemical & Engineering News<\/em> reports<\/a> that software developer James Rhodes\u2014whose wife, DeLacy Rhodes, is a microbiologist\u2014has created a skill for Alexa called Helix<\/a>\u00a0that lends a helping hand around the laboratory.<\/p>\n

It makes sense. While most people might ask Alexa to check the news headlines, play music, or set a timer because our hands are a mess from cooking, scientists could look up melting points, pose simple calculations, or ask for an experimental procedure to be read aloud while their hands are gloved and in use.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

For now, Helix is still a proof-of-concept. But you can sign up<\/a> to try an early working version, and Rhodes has plans to extend its abilities…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Also see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Helix\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Scientists Are Turning Alexa into an Automated Lab Helper — from technologyreview.com by Jamie Condliffe Amazon\u2019s voice-activated assistant follows a rich tradition of researchers using consumer tech in unintended ways to further their work. Excerpt: Alexa, what\u2019s the next step in my titration? Probably not the first question you ask your smart assistant in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[556,356,174,364,208,115,433,302,45,419,180,482,124,158,510,821,309,204,195,206,214,156,312,186,367,11,822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-career-development","category-chemistry","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-colleges","category-communications","category-community-colleges","category-computer-science","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-interaction-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-natural-language-processing-nlp","category-platforms","category-programming","category-tools","category-trends","category-universities","category-usability","category-user-experience-ux","category-user-interface-design","category-vendors","category-vision-possibilities","category-voice-recognition-voice-enabled-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62817,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62814\/revisions\/62817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}