AI Training To Begin In Public Spaces

Next week, disruptive tech innovator Frère Inc. plans to roll out their AI training program in select public areas to give themselves an edge over their competition.

Hot on the heels of a collaboration with public surveillance company Peer Thomas Communications, known for their public security devices such as speed, traffic, and miscellaneous surveillance cameras, Frère Inc. has successfully installed cameras and microphones in crowd-centric areas such as Times Square, Central Park and the Las Vegas Strip, designed to listen in on the crowds and train their AI program, Grand, on real, natural human speech.

According to Frère Inc. CTO Louise O’Brien in a conference yesterday: “Most other tech companies train their AIs on written texts found online like boring academia dissertations, formal company emails, messaging boards and teen chatrooms, but we want to go that extra mile to really make sure Grand sounds like a real person when you speak to him”. By training on real human speech, she explains, Grand will be able to truly mimic not just the words people use, but also speech patterns, regional dialects and interactions between multiple people speaking over each other simultaneously. This, she believes, will give the company an edge over their competitors to truly stand out as the innovators of the future.

Grand by Frère will begin the training next Monday, although of course he is already available to the public as a virtual assistant on Frère’s popular smart home device, Overseer. This latest update will simply be the next step to making AI technology more accessible to the public, and allowing deeper connections to be formed between AI assistants and their human friends.