Neural Networks Should We Give Chatbots Their Own Personalities? Today, we have machines that assemble cars, make candy bars, defuse bombs, and a myriad of other things. They can dispense our drinks, facilitate our bank deposits, and find the movies we want...
Deep Learning What Can We Expect For Chatbots in 2017 & Beyond? This year's explosion of the chatbots industry has been exponential, and the impact of virtual assistants can be felt throughout the tech world. But why now? How will the rapid spread of bots...
Big Data What Did You Miss at the Deep Learning Summit Last Week? On 22-23 September, over 500 founders, CTOs, business leaders, software engineers and entrepreneurs came together at the 2nd annual Deep Learning Summit in London, to explore the latest advancements in deep learning methods,...
Guest Blogs How We Built a Chatbot for Real People The App ecosystem is broken. There are millions of apps out there, and it is hard to find that one that suits you. Platforms do not seem to be investing enough in improving...
Virtual Assistant Summit How Can Chatbots Help Small Businesses? There are over 500 million small to medium businesses on the planet, and without them life as we know it simply wouldn’t exist. But more than 50 million of those businesses fail...
Machine Learning Is Humanising Chatbots the Next Inevitable Improvement? Ashley Hathaway is Senior Developer Evangelist at IBM Watson, a company that has become renowned in recent years for their expertise in artificial intelligence and analytical software. In 2011, Watson made headlines after...
Deep Learning Algorithms Women in Tech: Deborah Harrison, Microsoft Cortana Today, while the field of artificial intelligence is still in its adolescence, the industry stands in a brilliant position to shape not only technological innovation but also the culture of conversation between humans...
Deep Learning How Will Deep Learning Change Your Business? The media interest surrounding deep learning has grown exponentially in the last few years. But what does it actually mean, and how will it change business and society?Deep learning is a subset...
Deep Learning Personalization is Essential For Wider Uptake of Chatbots Today’s widely used virtual personal assistants, while intelligent and useful, are not yet particularly “personal”, and by lacking in depth personalization, they can be a barrier to broader adoption of AI assistants...
Big Data How Will Deep Learning Impact the Finance Industry? Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a new concept, but thanks to breakthroughs in deep learning, recent years have seen a rapid resurgence leading to an increasing impact across many industries. Finance in particular...
Machine Learning Taking the Scenic Route With Deep Learning Can deep learning change the way we interact with our environment? Navigation systems typically assist drivers to find the shortest or fastest path between locations using time or distance as input parameters. However...
Big Data Deep Learning in Healthcare Part 1: Opportunities & Risks The application of artificial intelligence and deep learning in healthcare and medicine is often quoted to grow tenfold in 5 years, from algorithms that learn to recognise complex patterns within rich medical data,...
Deep Learning Recap: Videos From RE•WORK Virtual Assistant Summit, San Francisco 2016 In San Francisco on 28-29 January 2016, the Virtual Assistant Summit brought together business leaders, influential technologists, data scientists and entrepreneurs creating next-generation virtual assistants. The summit showcased the opportunities of advancing trends...
Future Cities International Day of Women & Girls in Science: Part 2 This is Part 2 of 3 in our celebrations for International Day of Women and Girls in Science! As science and technology companies continue to grow rapidly, with tech giants like Facebook and...
Deep Learning Machine Intelligence Is Red Hot Space but Startups Face Uphill Battle Steve Ardire is a software startup advisor with a focus in AI, machine intelligence and cognitive computing, and will be speaking at the Virtual Assistant Summit in San Francisco, on 28-29 January 2016....
Drones The Tech Trends & Predictions for 2016 As we’re moving into the new year, we’re currently exploring which technologies will impact our lives in 2016. This week we're taking a look at the rapidly advancing sectors of artificial...
Deep Learning Here's What We Can Expect from Deep Learning in 2016 and Beyond As 2015 draws to a close, all eyes are on the year's accomplishments, as well as forecasting technology trends of 2016 and beyond. One particular field that has frequently been in the spotlight...
Anticipatory Computing Humanizing Artificially Intelligent Agents - and Why it Matters A company is applying artificial intelligence to solve a problem that every office struggles with - scheduling and organisation. How will they accomplish this for 400 million users? With a little help from...
Deep Learning What Are Apple's Plans With Newly Acquired AI Startups? Gracelyn Jadyn has been in the blogging industry since 2010 and has been invited by several reputable tech websites to cover events and write about the latest innovative devices on the market. Connect...
Machine Learning Creating a More Humane Artificial Intelligence Virtual assistants have received a lot of attention as helpful tech that will make our lives easier, whether it's finding the quickest route to our destination; controlling smart home products; suggesting restaurants or...
Machine Learning From Virtual Assistants to Virtual Specialists From the same company that brought us Siri, SRI International launched Kasisto in 2014 with the aim of taking mobile conversation to the next level. Founded with the vision of helping consumers in...
Big Data Recommended Reads - Intelligent Machines Week The tech world is rapidly evolving and it’s hard to keep up! To help you get up to date we’ve rounded up the best tech and innovation articles from this past...
Neural Networks Community News - 19 Aug 2015 Virtual Assistants & Intelligent Agents. The Race is On.Virtual Assistants are poised to be the next big thing in technology and artificial intelligence. They will create a new meta-layer of machine intelligence...
