by Scott Sandland | Apr 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Building intelligent systems, known as chat bots, that can engage in a human-like conversation constitutes one of the frontiers of AI still to be tamed. While voice assistants are now commonplace, these fall short of a true conversation as they are unable to hold...
by Scott Sandland | Mar 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
We need to talk about helping kids. Yes, our business is about engaging customers through conversations and assessing and addressing their emotional needs. Yes, that’s important for improving outcomes of sales and customer service interactions. And yes, these systems...
by Scott Sandland | Jan 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Artificial Intelligence is not about terminators making humans obsolete. It’s about improving the world for and lives of the humans that build and use these smart machines. Part of that is making it easier for more humans to gain the benefits. It’s not good enough to...
by Scott Sandland | Jan 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Quick: Name the best chess player in history. No, it’s not Bobby Fisher or Garry Kasparov. It’s a computer built by a Google subsidiary, Deep Mind. Let’s get right to the exciting part: It taught itself to play from scratch without human intervention. In only 4 hours...
by Scott Sandland | Jan 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last week, for the first time, an AI system was able to outscore a human on the Stanford University Reading Comprehension Quiz. Actually, two different systems achieved this feat. Systems created by Microsoft and Alibaba were both able to eek out a small victory over...
