Health has come out as the number one sector globally for AI investment in a recent survey by CB Insights (followed by Financial Services and Retail). We’re particularly excited about NHS advice being available on Alexa: it addresses a real problem of “digital exclusion”. …

Learn about machine learning and neural networks in 30 seconds If you are a business leader with the question “what is machine learning anyway?”, here’s a snippet from a half day business briefing we offer for leaders wanting to have a plain-English understanding of machine learning and neural networks. Business…

Air St Capital released a technical research overview of the state of AI for 2019. One of the NLP highlights we like is about GLUE, a benchmark created just last year to foster competition against researchers into diversity and quality of NLP algorithms. However, progress towards human-level targets was so…

The march into the age of voice computing continues with a stack of real world stories of how Voice is impacting our day to day lives. Included are three more CogX 2019 conversational AI sessions covering general business, consumer, entertainment, and marketing. Speaking of marketing we also found a new…

CogX 2019 was an epic adventure getting to meet so many leaders in the conversational AI community. To you all, a huge thank you from me and the rest of the CognitionX team for your contributions! With over 500 speakers across 200+ sessions and 10 stages and more than 17,000…

As part of the larger CogX London 2019 Festival of AI and emerging tech, we had over 38 confirmed senior leader NLP practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds talking about the wide-ranging impact of AI on speech and text. Look at this small sample of some of the speakers: …

In the news we have: 💡An update on the world’s biggest conversational AI platform no one knows about 📚How AI is helping students learn 🤓Hear yourself speak another language you don’t actually know ✍Create English poems with AI 💬Voice cloning: can you tell the difference? Smarter Conversations Xiaoice gains further commercial traction Microsoft…

Google IO, Facebook F8 & Microsoft Build: we sifted through it all. We saw the vision piece for Microsoft’s Cortana, but will get excited when it launches. Google’s “camera first” experience is the highlight for us. New technology research from us on AI speech and text analysis technology! The really exciting…

Technology is only useful when we can use it. For millions of people around the world, computers today can be incomprehensible and stressful, putting them out of reach, and leaving them “digitally excluded”. …