Bots don’t need to pass the Turing test — just the beer test

Edit Venture Beat 03 May 2016
The Turing test is a test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950, of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. When I joined Slack, my vision was to help developers build bots that pass the Turing test 2–3 times a day ... So what is this beer test? ... Building humanized bots that pass the Turing test is super hard; it involves NLP, complex conversational skills, and much more ... ....

Largest Telehealth Provider Moves to the Cloud with the Five9 Virtual Contact Center (Five9 Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 02 May 2016
(Source. Five9 Inc) c922e890-8e42-4ef9-9338-e1793a23f052.pdf. May 2, 2016 Largest Telehealth Provider Moves to the Cloud with the Five9 Virtual Contact Center. Five9 Chosen for Reliability, Workforce Management, and Rapid Deployment ... (NASDAQ ... Reliability ... Click to Tweet ... Five9 Connect is a unique intelligent technology layer that includes advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP), business rules, routing engine, and agent assistance tools....

Intesa Sanpaolo: consolidated results as at 31 December 2015 (Intesa Sanpaolo SpA)

Edit Public Technologies 02 May 2016
(Source. Intesa Sanpaolo SpA) Performance del periodo PRESS RELEASE. INTESA SANPAOLO. CONSOLIDATED RESULTS AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2015 PROFITABILITY GREW STRONGLY, EXCEEDING THE BANK'S 2014-2017 BUSINESS PLAN TARGETS. PROPOSED CASH DIVIDENDS AMOUNT TO €2.4BN. THE CAPITAL BASE WAS STRONG AND WELL ABOVE REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS. PRO-FORMA FULLY LOADED COMMON EQUITY RATIO WAS 13.1% NET OF PROPOSED DIVIDENDS ... NLP STOCK DECLINED ... ROBUST NET INCOME.....

The 200 billion dollar chatbot disruption

Edit Venture Beat 01 May 2016
The main driver behind the cost reductions here will be through advances in natural language processing (NLP), supplemented with crowdsourcing approaches. Let’s start with NLP, which is a form of machine learning. The simplest way to think about NLP is as an automated way of understanding groupings of words and the corresponding natural responses to those groupings of words....

To bot or not to bot

Edit Venture Beat 30 Apr 2016
Everyone is talking bots these days, and they stress good points — new interaction options, lots of opportunities for distribution and discovery, and exciting new possibilities to deliver services to users ... Done wrong, bots could be as useful as blinking text in old websites — a gimmick that no one remembers ... Notifications ... There is no need for NLP, no complex conversational scripting, and no conversational back-and-forth. Above ... ....

How neuroscience is becoming mainstream (Penna Consulting plc)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Apr 2016
(Source. Penna Consulting plc). It is hard to be unaware of how neuroscience and the emergence of new discoveries about the brain are influencing all aspects of life. People are clearly engaged in learning more about why they think, feel and behave the way they do ... NLP practitioners won't be surprised by this but it does mean neuroscience is giving credence to NLP methods that have generated cynicism from some quarters ... Original Document....

When will AI and NLP actually turn Siri into your best friend?

Edit Crunch 23 Apr 2016
 The discussion around robots has only increased in the past few years. But beyond the physical capabilities of robots, the bigger question is what robots’ minds will be capable of in the future. How will we communicate with a robot’s mind? Will it only act in the physical world or will it also be able to act in the Internet world? ... ....

Alphabet increases moonshot spending

Edit Business Insider 23 Apr 2016
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Mobile Industry Insider subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Alphabet missed its earnings projections in Q1 2016 ... Sequentially, revenue dropped 5%, from $21.3 billion in Q4 2015 ... Google CEO Sundar Pichai emphasized the company’s efforts to continue making its Search more useful, particularly for mobile, through machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) ... ....

April 22, 2016

Edit PsychCentral 22 Apr 2016
It’s Earth Day. I’m reminded of the guy who threw his trash out the window. I was shocked. It didn’t just tell me what he thought of the earth. It told me what he thought of himself ... People who are critical of others are often critical with themselves ... (NLP Discoveries) – How do you attack depression? Research shows you need to address it from two sides-your body and mind ... ....

Natural language processing startup Idibon nears shutdown

Edit Venture Beat 21 Apr 2016
The startup came up at a time of rising interest in natural-language processing (NLP) as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and other companies have invested in this technology, at times through acquisitions ... Other companies with NLP technology include Aylien, Babel Street, Diffbot, Kngine, Lexalytics, and Luminoso. There’s also open-source NLP software, such as NLTK for Python and Stanford University’s CoreNLP for Java ... Idibon ... ....

IRCTC ties up with Simpli5d Technologies to power captchas on its ticket booking website

Edit The Times of India 20 Apr 2016
PUNE. IRCTC has tied up with Simpli5d Technologies, the company behind NLP Captcha to power the captchas on its train ticket booking website ... NLP Captcha is an audience intelligence platform that replaces the tradition captchas with advertiser driven content ... IRCTC handles over one million ecommerce transactions a day and over 100 million captchas are solved on the platform every month, which will be replaced by NLP Captchas ... ....

Data Science Research Grants: Announcing Our Third Round of Winners (Bloomberg LP)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Apr 2016
(Source. Bloomberg LP). The Bloomberg Data Science Research Grant Program aims to support cutting-edge research in the broad field of machine learning, including specific areas such as natural language processing, information retrieval, machine-translation and deep neural networks. In April 2015 we announced our first round of recipients and in October 2015 we announced our second ... Latent-Variable Spectral Learning Kernelization for NLP....

News Corp shares 3 predictions anticipating the future of data (INMA - International Newsmedia Marketing Association)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Apr 2016
(Source. INMA - International Newsmedia Marketing Association) 15 April 2016 · By Noreyana Fernando. Data is powerful, but innovation is the real key to the future of data. News Corp's chief data scientist advises media companies to create value through innovation. Predict it. Copy it. Or Create it ... For example, when massive data or documents like the Panama Papers are leaked, NLP programmes would help see trends by analysing the words....
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