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A collection of 45 posts

Exploring Machine Learning at OpenAI & Google With the Experts
Deep Learning

Exploring Machine Learning at OpenAI & Google With the Experts

On 26-27 January, we held the Deep Learning Summit and Virtual Assistant Summit in San Francisco, enjoying another mind-expanding 2 days learning about the latest trends and applications in the AI world. During...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
24 February 2017
The Emergence of Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA)
Virtual Assistant Summit

The Emergence of Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA)

Over the next half decade, we’ll witness the birth of truly intelligent vertical agents, each of which focuses on a single task and its flawless execution. As more of these come to...

  • Charlotte Utting
3 February 2017
A Virtual Personal Finance Specialist for the 99%
Virtual Assistant Summit

A Virtual Personal Finance Specialist for the 99%

"47% of Americans live on a financial cliff, unable to come up with $400 of cash in the event of an emergency."To address this problem, Abe.ai are introducing the concept of...

  • Diane Bédat
20 January 2017
Got Data? Build a Better Bot with Analytics
Big Data

Got Data? Build a Better Bot with Analytics

"The role of analytics in chatbots will differ from traditional web and mobile analytics."Arte Merritt, Co-Founder & CEO at Dashbot.io will be presenting at the Virtual Assistant Summit in San Francisco,...

  • Diane Bédat
13 January 2017
Predictions for Virtual Assistants in 2017
Machine Learning

Predictions for Virtual Assistants in 2017

Now that 2017 has officially started, we are looking forward to exploring the latest technologies and how they will impact our lives. It's clear that AI will infuse everything and it's expected to...

  • Diane Bédat
3 January 2017
The World's First Artificially Intelligent Lawyer
Data Mining

The World's First Artificially Intelligent Lawyer

Lawyers today are overwhelmed with information. 3 million new laws get published every single year. Currently, lawyers use legal search engines that have confusing user interfaces, require complicated search syntax, and return thousands...

  • Diane Bédat
12 December 2016
AI Assistant in the Job of Home Security
Connected Home

AI Assistant in the Job of Home Security

We are living in a new social era of living and with that there is a need for smarter solutions and assistants that can recognise and effectively identify friends, from intruders. Like with...

  • Diane Bédat
28 November 2016
Bots in Healthcare: Will They Assist or Replace Humans?
Voice Recognition

Bots in Healthcare: Will They Assist or Replace Humans?

With the increasingly rapid technological advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning, development of virtual assistants and chatbots has exploded this year, and new applications are being explored everyday. One area...

  • Diane Bédat
11 November 2016
Next-Level Social Robotics: The Personalised Family Bot
Deep Learning

Next-Level Social Robotics: The Personalised Family Bot

To create a truly socially interactive robot, researchers and scientists use extensive knowledge of human social behaviour, psychology, and a whole host of different methodologies and computational models. As technological advances in AI...

  • Diane Bédat
27 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
How Can Chatbots Help Small Businesses?
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...

  • Diane Bédat
8 September 2016
Women in Tech: Deborah Harrison, Microsoft Cortana
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...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
27 July 2016
Personalization is Essential For Wider Uptake of Chatbots
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...

  • Diane Bédat
11 July 2016
Recap: Videos From RE•WORK Virtual Assistant Summit, San Francisco 2016
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...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
28 February 2016
Machine Intelligence Is Red Hot Space but Startups Face Uphill Battle
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....

  • Steve Ardire
16 January 2016
Humanizing Artificially Intelligent Agents - and Why it Matters
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...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
15 December 2015
What Are Apple's Plans With Newly Acquired AI Startups?
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...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
6 December 2015
Creating a More Humane Artificial Intelligence
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...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
26 November 2015
From Virtual Assistants to Virtual Specialists
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...

  • Nikita Johnson
    Nikita Johnson
22 October 2015
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