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Natural Language Understanding

A collection of 28 posts

Beyond Chatbots
Robotics

Beyond Chatbots

Bots, bots, bots! We’ve heard about them, we’ve seen them, we’ve likely used them- maybe without even knowing it. In May, Facebook announced that there were over 300,000 bots...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
31 October 2018
Alok Kothari from Apple talks NLP
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...

  • RE•WORK
    RE•WORK
24 January 2018
Keeping up With Consumer Demands: Far-Field Voice Technology in AI Assistants
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...

  • Lydie Horgan
19 December 2017
Yariv Adan, Google Assistant: Are we becoming reliant on AI?
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...

  • RE•WORK
    RE•WORK
15 November 2017
The Average Person is Served Over 5000 Adverts A Day: How do you Cut Through the Noise?
Deep Learning

The Average Person is Served Over 5000 Adverts A Day: How do you Cut Through the Noise?

How many times have you been shopping online, filled up your basket and abandoned your purchase? This could be due to countless factors - you’re over budget and can’t decide what...

  • Emily Fernback
31 October 2017
The Evolution of AI Assistants
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...

  • Lydie Horgan
26 October 2017
Uber, Google Brain, Facebook & More - what did you miss in Montreal?
Deep Learning

Uber, Google Brain, Facebook & More - what did you miss in Montreal?

Over the last few days, the RE•WORK team have been here at the Deep Learning Summit in Montreal, the Canadian AI capital, where we’ve heard from experts from some of the...

  • Katie Pollitt
    Katie Pollitt
11 October 2017
Does NLP have what it takes to fix voice & text recognition?
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...

  • Lydie Horgan
26 September 2017
DeepMind, Vodafone, Google & Facebook - Deep Learning & AI Highlights
Big Data

DeepMind, Vodafone, Google & Facebook - Deep Learning & AI Highlights

This week, the The Deep Learning Summit and AI Assistant Summit saw over 450 DL and AI experts and enthusiasts come together to learn from each other and explore the most recent research...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
22 September 2017
Facebook, Amazon, DeepMind & More - what did you miss at the DL summit?
Deep Learning

Facebook, Amazon, DeepMind & More - what did you miss at the DL summit?

Coffee: check. Pastry: check. Experts from globally leading AI and Deep Learning projects: check.Yesterday morning we kicked off the Deep Learning Summit and AI Assistant Summit with Fabrizio Silvestri from Facebook and...

  • RE•WORK
    RE•WORK
21 September 2017
Social Media Management is a drag: can AI take the job off your hands?
Big Data

Social Media Management is a drag: can AI take the job off your hands?

By now, most industries understand the value of social media platforms. Being an influencer in your space and gaining trust from your potential customers equals growth, new business, and increased profits. It’s...

  • RE•WORK
    RE•WORK
18 September 2017
When Will Voice Assistants Actually Understand What We're Asking?
Virtual Assistant Summit

When Will Voice Assistants Actually Understand What We're Asking?

“Do I need to take a coat today?”, “Play my workout playlist in the living room”, “Order me a takeaway.” Demands that your family might find pretty rude or tiresome, but perfectly acceptable...

  • RE•WORK
    RE•WORK
29 August 2017
Let AI Make Your Summer Holiday Breezy: Week 3
Deep Learning

Let AI Make Your Summer Holiday Breezy: Week 3

Summer is in full swing. It might be cold and rainy outside, but the sun is shining somewhere. As part of our Summer Series promotion, we’ve been looking at how AI can...

  • Annabelle Norrey
16 August 2017
Artificial humans - how far can machines go?
Humanoid Robots

Artificial humans - how far can machines go?

With virtual assistants and robots becoming more intelligent every day, it’s easy to forget what sets us apart. Emotions, reason, our ability to make mistakes, love and care.Whilst robots can display...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
3 August 2017
AI Assistants: in the news: what have you missed?
Deep Learning Summit

AI Assistants: in the news: what have you missed?

Whilst a new study carried out by Verto Analytics revealed that phone based virtual assistants saw declines in terms of monthly users, it would appear that those which cater to home devices grew....

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
20 July 2017
Agile Deep Learning For Modern Software Development
Deep Learning

Agile Deep Learning For Modern Software Development

Deep Learning has been called the "new electricity", with its sudden transformational power over every industry. While the attention on deep learning's innovative algorithms is well-deserved, turning innovation into value requires integrating these...

  • Katie Pollitt
    Katie Pollitt
2 May 2017
Online Banking is Evolving With NLP & Deep Learning
Machine Learning

Online Banking is Evolving With NLP & Deep Learning

The world of online banking is heading towards a digital reality where questions are no longer answered by humans, but by computers. In the last year alone the number of banks focusing on...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
2 April 2017
The Great Conundrum of Hyperparameter Optimization
Deep Learning

The Great Conundrum of Hyperparameter Optimization

Regularization is tuning or selecting the preferred level of model complexity so deep learning models are more successful in predictions.Techniques for regularization are applied to machine learning models to make the decision...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
28 March 2017
Interview With Google's Conversation Design Lead Nandini Stocker
Machine Learning

Interview With Google's Conversation Design Lead Nandini Stocker

Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of international development goals. In order to achieve equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and attain global gender...

  • Sophie Curtis
13 February 2017
Top 10 Topics Not To Be Missed at the Machine Intelligence Summit
Deep Learning

Top 10 Topics Not To Be Missed at the Machine Intelligence Summit

The artificial intelligence market is growing rapidly, and companies are now looking to invest in technologies that can help them gain a competitive edge in business. What are the latest breakthroughs in machine...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
6 October 2016
Should We Give Chatbots Their Own Personalities?
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...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
2 October 2016
What Can We Expect For Chatbots in 2017 & Beyond?
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...

  • Diane Bédat
29 September 2016
Visual Question Answering Problems: Reasoning With Deep Learning
Deep Learning

Visual Question Answering Problems: Reasoning With Deep Learning

Ilija Ilievski is a PhD student at the National University of Singapore, studying interdisciplinary research in the intersection of vision and language. He believes question answering over multimodal data is the next frontier...

  • Katie Pollitt
    Katie Pollitt
4 September 2016
The Evolution of NLP: Natural Language Understanding
Deep Learning

The Evolution of NLP: Natural Language Understanding

Despite recent advances in AI, a deep understanding of natural language by machines still remains highly challenging. Antoine Bordes, Research Scientist at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), is working to change this with...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
1 September 2016
Video Interview With Deep Learning Expert Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneers

Video Interview With Deep Learning Expert Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is a renowned figure in the deep learning field. His titles include Full Professor of the Department of Computer Science & Operations Research at the Université de Montréal, head of the...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
11 August 2016
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