The following dialog was taken from a user having a conversation with a Chatbot, after the user brought up the subject “Dancing”: B1: Dance is a beautiful expression of your feelings. Do you agree?U1: How do you know? Do you have feelings? B2: Yes I do. I have feelings. Prove
Sometimes, the most random turn of life can take you to the greatest places. For Greg Bennett, conversation design lead at Salesforce in San Francisco, it was a memorable end to a relationship, that drove him to become a world-leading expert on the connection between linguistics, with MA and BA
On paper, nothing seems more different between an Improv stand-up comedy show – vibrant, wild, unexpected, full of uncontrollable laughter that make you lose yourself in the moment – and a chatbot – planned, a code which is controllable by logs, while its pure existence aims to fulfill a marketing
What do sirens have to do with it? AnnA released its first single today, and fittingly for a bot, it’s not a man-made creation: The lyrics were completely generated by an NLG algorithm, and the singing is performed in AnnA’s “regular” voice. The name of this meetup, where this song
First there were chatterboxes. Mostly children, but also old ladies and taxi drivers. After Eliza hit the streets in the 60s, the term was paraphrased to “chatterbot”. The “chatter” soon gave way to the shorter “chat”, and the term “Chatbot” became the standard for software which engages in natural language
Can you imagine sitting in a bank, being the first line of contact, talking with people, hearing all their complaints, trying to get them throughout the gauntlet of bureaucracy and automating your own responses as a live chat agent? That’s how Henry Ginsburg spent several years over the last decade.
During our HR & AI panel, we discussed the benefits and challenges of automation and AI in the HR & Recruitment process. Our HR panelists were Allys Parsons, VoiceTech & Conversational AI Recruiter at Techire.io, Dante Coladonato, Employer Branding and Onboarding Specialist at Clariant, and Scott Gilbert, Head of Global
During the Coronavirus pandemic, the first responders and medical crews put their lives on the line for people all over the world. But there are other ways as well to fight the virus and educate the public: chatbots, for example. The government of India, one of the current (as of
Mary Tomasso’s story is, in a way, the story of the remote working online industry over the last decade or so. She started working online in 2009, by creating content and helping hundreds of people get their business from the streets and malls to the virtual space; then, when conversational
After working in the intersection of human and computer’s communication for about 20 years, Dr. Michelle Zhou knows a lot about how to make this connection as natural as possible. In 2017 she founded Juji.io, an AI platform that “democratizes the creation of powerful AI helpers with radically simple building
MedTech, TeleHealth, HealthTech – a lot of big words are trying to capture the revolution that the healthcare industry is going through these days. The
Chatbots are becoming much more common in a lot of industries, including healthcare, insurance, and e-commerce. Here are a few reasons why chatbots are making
10 years after starting out helping friends create conversational interfaces, Zexter Zavalaza Hough Snee, PhD is a much-respected veteran and expert in the conversational AI
Guest Post // Benjamin McCulloch Do you know that once Orson Welles made a radio production of the War of the Worlds, and because people
Just 8 months ago, Zara Jillings was still dressing up for basketball games – fighting for rebounds and directing the offense for Fordham university at
Voice skills are becoming more and more popular around the world. The technological advancements, as well as the Coronavirus crisis that forced a multitude of
