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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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....
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...