Published in Startups.com·Mar 17, 2018The Right Mindset to StartThis is not a job, this is not work, this is life When starting your entrepreneurial journey. One of the first things you’re going to need to get right. Is the mindset you’re going to need to have, to make your endeavor successful. You definitely cannot think of this like…Startup2 min read
Published in Planeta Chatbot : todo sobre los Chat bots, Voice apps e Inteligencia Artificial·Aug 16, 2017Definiendo el propósito de tu bot y centrándolo en la obtención de conocimientoEl Conocimiento Mínimo Viable para entrenar a tu bot. — Para los humanos es realmente difícil responder a la pregunta, ¿cuál es tu propósito? Pero para un bot, un sistema construido y desarrollado con una intención en concreto, debe tener un propósito. ¿Qué vas a hacer? ¿Por qué estás aquí? Preguntas sencillas que acabarán definiendo su existencia. Todo esto me…Bots5 min read
Published in Startups.com·Feb 25, 2017Engineering as Marketing with AIAn underutilized marketing channel with new potential. I’m always fascinated how Startups gain traction and build a user base. There are a lot of things big companies can learn from how startups do their marketing and grow their users. In the real early stages, startups may not have marketing…Artificial Intelligence4 min read
Published in Chatbots Magazine·Jan 8, 2017Defining Your Bot’s Purpose and Focusing Its Domain KnowledgeA Minimal Viable Knowledge (MVK) approach to training your bot. — It may be difficult for a human, to answer the question, “What is your purpose?” But a bot, a thing that was built and developed with intention, should have a purpose. What do you do? Why are you here? Simple questions that define its existence. It reminds me of the…Bots4 min read
Published in DAYONE — A new perspective.·Jan 5, 2017How to Choose Your Side ProjectsLook through lenses when deciding how to spend your time. There are many positive reasons on why you should have a side project such as, personal growth, increased creativity, financial opportunities, education and more. My close friends know that I have side projects list that runs as long as my…Entrepreneurship3 min read
Dec 9, 2016Can a Bot make you laugh?We developed a Comedy Bot for the IBM Watson Dev Conference to find out. To preface this was not a task to develop an algorithm that could create original jokes but to see if we could script a humorous conversation that felt naturally delivered by a bot. A robot walks…Bots5 min read
May 12, 2015Our IBM Watson Hackathon experienceA run through of the 2 days at the Watson Hackathon 2015 IBM held their World of Watson conference last week in Brooklyn and as part of that conference they put on the first official IBM Watson Hackathon. To get further hands on experience with the Watson API’s our agency…6 min read
Apr 30, 2015IBM Watson cognitive services one pagerWith the Watson Hackathon coming up on May 4–5 I thought it would be useful to have a one pager of the current 13 cognitive services available. Concept Expansion Concept Insights Language Identification Machine Translation Message Resonance Personality Insights Question and Answer Relationship Extraction Speech to Text Text to Speech …9 min read
