Alphabet’s DeepMind lost $572 million last year. What does it mean? DeepMind, likely the world’s largest research-focused artificial intelligence operation, is losing a lot of money fast, more than $1 billion in the past three years. DeepMind also has more than $1 billion in debt due in the next 12 …
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The Road To Chatbots, Virtual Assistants For B2B Marketers, Per Forrester by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 14, 2020 Chatbots and virtual assistants (VAs) can help B2B companies close the gap, as buyers seek content delivered primarily through vendor websites and search engines. It’s a pretty forgone conclusion, especially …
(KN Opinion) — Fake news is so threatening to America’s national security, the Pentagon’s DARPA research agency has announced it will launch a project to repel “large-scale, automated disinformation attacks,” according to Bloomberg. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants custom software that can unearth fakes hidden among more than 500,000 …
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a COVID-19 assessment bot Thursday to help initially screen Americans who are concerned they’re suffering from symptoms connected to the novel coronavirus. The new, conversational bot—deemed the Coronavirus Self-Checker on the agency’s website—can gauge the risk factors and symptoms for people who …
Read moreCDC Launches COVID-19 Bot to Help You Decide If You Need to See a Doctor – Nextgov
2020 has presented a seismic shift in the way businesses must support their customers. It now needs to be online, available at any time, and it needs to be fast. Messengers are proving valuable channels to support customers in a way that is natural to them. The approach can enable …
Digital evolution has changed how humans do everything. Technological advancements have automated much of the work humans used to do. These technological advances have seen the development of simple software programs that communicate with humans called chatbots. Chatbots imitate human conversations to solve various issues, and have become increasingly in …
Read moreBeginners guide to Chatbots : What is a Chatbot & How it works?
If bricks-and-mortar bank branches don’t close altogether within the next decade, they will undoubtedly offer an experience a world away from that of the last few decades. Stuffy queues at the cashier counter will be replaced by a combination of self-service points and customer service assistants with iPads, ready to …
Read moreHow chatbots are making banking more conversational – Tech Wire Asia
Google has released a neural-network powered chatbot called Meena that it claims is better than any other chatbot out there. Data slurp: Meena was trained on a whopping 341GB of public social-media chatter—8.5 times as much data as OpenAI’s GPT-2. Google says Meena can talk about pretty much anything, and …
Read moreGoogle says its new chatbot Meena is the best in the world – MIT Technology Review
Oh, how the headlines blared: “…the 2016 bot paradigm shift is going to be far more disruptive and interesting than the last decade’s move from Web to mobile apps.” Chatbots were The Next Big Thing. Our hopes were sky high. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, the industry was ripe for a new …
It takes thoughtful work to scale an e-commerce store. I’m sure you’ve had a few growing pains of your own getting to the point where you are today. However, you’re reading this because you may not be content with where your conversions are at this precise moment. You may not …
Read more21 Ways to Triple Your B2B E‑Commerce Conversions – Moz
