Virtual Assistant Summit Is realtime chat translation possible? When I was about 8 years old I became overly obsessed with the idea of moving objects with my mind — just think of a mini Darth Vader version of myself. But, truth be...
Machine Learning The Age of Personal Assistants: More Machine Learning, Less Hand-Crafting! Personal assistants such as Alexa and Siri are everywhere, but have trouble handling any tasks more complex than setting an alarm or playing songs on Spotify. PolyAI is a new London-based startup with...
Deep Learning The Promise of Deep Learning for Rule-Based Tasks The promise of AI is extraordinary, but anyone with technical chops knows there’s a long way to go. Deep learning and neural networks have gotten pretty good at things like image recognition,...
AI Assistants How can NLP help enhance customer experience? Whilst the general public might not know what natural language processing (NLP) is, it's one of the areas of AI that most impacts in our every day lives. When you talk to your...
Deep Learning Interview with Pararth Shah, Google Last month at the AI Assistant Summit in San Francisco, we were joined by Pararth Shah, Research Engineer at Google, who we spoke with about his current work as well as AI and...
AI Assistants As Our AI Systems Become More Capable, Should Ethics be an Integral Component to your Business Strategy? There’s been an explosion of interest in ethics, responsible AI and bias in recent years. When built, cultivated and deployed with the right human oversight, AI has the potential to do significantly...
Customer Service 3 Lessons Learned From Automating Customer Service With AI Customer service chat automation is one of those areas where already today AI is used to benefit companies. Among large enterprises it is one of the prime targets for automation this year. Virtual...
Deep Learning Deep Learning Summit & AI Assistant Summit Day 1: Highlights Today saw attendees joining RE•WORK in San Francisco for our much anticipated Deep Learning Summit and AI Assistant Summit. Four years ago in November 2014 when we hosted our first summit in...
Deep Learning Alok Kothari from Apple talks NLP In the initial press conference introducing Siri as an integrated iPhone app back in October 2011, an Apple executive asked the assistant ‘Who are you?’ to which Siri replied ‘I am a humble...
Machine Learning AI is the New CX Frontier but it comes with a Unique Set of Challenges Organizations that offer conversational interfaces, integrated omni-channel experiences, automated transactions and intelligent self-service will win both market share and mindshare in the future. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new competitive battleground for delivering...
Machine Learning Interview: Shekhar Yadav, Founder of Objects.AI Businesses of all shapes and sizes are recognising the power of AI. Small businesses and enterprises can leverage these technologies to help improve efficiency, and large companies are automating whole departments of their...
Deep Learning Algorithms Introducing Algomus 2.0: the smarter AI workbot Algomus is a rapidly growing Detroit area startup that has built Algo the world's first Analyst Workbot and Enterprise ML powered Big Data Analytics platform for media & entertainment companies, manufacturers, distributors and...
Deep Learning How will AI impact businesses in 2018? Deep Learning and AI are going to become even more prominent points of discussion in 2018 and more businesses and enterprises adopt these technologies to improve efficiency and optimise their operations.Kicking off...
Deep Learning Layla El Asri on Dialogue Systems: Women in AI Podcast One of the highlights of 2017 has to be the launch of our Podcast, Women in AI. We’ve spoken to leading female minds from Facebook, Sightline Innovation, McGill University, Imperial College and...
Deep Learning AI Predictions for 2018 2017 has been a year of significant hype for AI, with the Wall Street Journal calling it ‘the year of AI’, and this isn’t about to change as we head towards 2018....
Deep Learning Keeping up With Consumer Demands: Far-Field Voice Technology in AI Assistants With the success of Amazon’s Echo and it's voice-controlled assistant Alexa, the smart speaker war is heating up to battle for the hub of home automation.Traditionally, these devices needed to be...
Virtual Assistant Summit 7 metrics for monitoring your chatbot’s performance Researchers estimate that by 2020 we will speak to chatbots more than we speak to our spouses. Obviously, companies that implement chatbots are doing something right. But while there are plenty of effective...
Deep Learning All Smiles? Emotional AI, Ethics, Industry Views and Citizen Perspectives Sharing problems with another human, be that a friend, family member, or colleague, is something we do frequently. Be that a moan about your commute to work or a gripe about a noisy...
Healthcare The World's First Social Care App: Interview with Ben Maruthappu, Cera, CEO We’re beginning to become accustomed to AI assistants in the home and on our personal devices. If you hear someone say ‘Hello Siri’ or ‘Hi Alexa’ you can be pretty confident that...
Deep Learning AI in Customer Service: Success Factors Think back to the last time you had a problem with a service provider and had to telephone or go online for help. Did you need to update your address, query an incorrect...
Deep Learning Yariv Adan, Google Assistant: Are we becoming reliant on AI? Whilst Siri was the first mainstream voice assistant many of us became familiar with, there are many personal AI's coming onto the market to make our lives that little bit easier. Google Assistant...
Virtual Assistant Summit How Booking.com Are Using AI to Alleviate the Stress of Travel Booking a hotel can be stressful, let alone booking an entire holiday. From pricing to location, facilities and all the extras you might need how do you know where to start and how...
Virtual Assistant Summit The Evolution of AI Assistants AI has been around for a surprisingly long time. In 1308 'Catalan poet and theologian Ramon Lull published Ars Generalis Ultime (The Ultimate General Art)' which proposed a method of using paper-based...
Healthcare Could an AI bot solve emotional weight gain? Emotions are one of the things that set humans apart from machines. In everyday life, we experience countless alterations in mood affected by a variety of factors both internally and externally. This is...
Deep Learning Does NLP have what it takes to fix voice & text recognition? It’s no secret that machines are getting more and more intelligent. You can converse with an AI assistant online and not even realise that you’re not speaking with an actual human...
