🕹Voice-Controlled Board Games

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 case study on a solar panel company that has had great success with conversational marketing.

Podcast of the week is Professor Tom Mitchell from Carnegie-Mellon talking about the future of AI and conversational machine learning.

We’ve got more on this below, along with a great case study, inspiring research, and more.

CogX Highlights

📺 CogX 2019, Festival of All Things AI and Emerging Tech: Catch up on our YouTube channel (and subscribe).

How AI is making entertainment more interactive
Isabel Perry (VP Engineering from BYTE) on building the Victoria Beckham digital avatar.
Emily Short (Spirit.ai) on emotional character design.
Guy Gadney (CEO, Charisma.ai) on what it takes to create a good story.
Steve Worswick (Mitsuku) on one of the world’s most successful “social chatbots”.

Success in conversational AI from around the world
Duncan Anderson (CEO, Humanise.AI): how to deal with unexpected user behaviour.
Lauren Kunze (CEO, Pandorabots): includes a story on the team composition you need.
Akemi Tsunagawa (CEO & Founder, Bespoke): case study on chatbots in Japan that are used by 25% of all foreigners in Japan and how her sister accidentally became a celebrity.
Aakrit Vaish (CEO & Co-founder, Haptik): talks about reaching the next billion users in India through voice. Haptik was recently acquired for $100M.

Snips.AI: An Alexa that won’t tell your secrets
Rand Hindi (​CEO & Co-Founder, Snips.AI) talks about the success of Snips.ai’s product.

Numbers That Matter

How offset solar generated $1.2M in revenue in 6 months
In this chatbot case study, you’ll learn how Offset Solar generated $1.2M in revenue in 6 months with $0 ad spend. And we’ll teach you step-by-step how to do it too.
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Toys to Try

New Monopoly has a voice-controlled AI banker that never cheats
A brand new version of Monopoly is being released with the aim of nipping potential arguments in the bud by including a voice-controlled AI banker which is incapable of cheating.
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Old Problems, New Solutions

The history and future of Machine Learning with Professor Tom Mitchell
“I think if you want to know the future of machine learning, all you need to do is look at how humans learn and computers don’t yet”. In this post I quote from the podcast and link to a video where he demonstrates his latest conversational learning prototypes.
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Helping the vocally-impaired speak in their own voice
Are the days of robotic-sounding voices over? Check out this inspiring work which is allowing people with serious speech issues speak in their own voice.
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