Conversational User Interfaces (CUI)Â are at the heart of the current wave of AI development. Although many applications and products out there are simply Mechanical Turks which means machines that pretend to be automatized while a hidden person is actually doing all the work there have been many interesting advancements in speech recognition from the symbolic or statistical … [Read more...] about AI and Speech Recognition: A Primer for Chatbots
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The Psychology of Data Science
I have recently published a piece on what it means and what it takes to be a data scientist. I want to add a further consideration, which lies at the intersection of science and psychology. I. Data Scientists Characteristics There is no scientist exactly alike another, and this is true for data scientists as well. Even if data science seems to mainly be a field run by American … [Read more...] about The Psychology of Data Science
Chief Data And Analytics Officer, Canada
Join 100+ Data Analytics leaders from 16 - 17 May 2017, Toronto, Canada for the 2nd annual Chief Data and Anaytics Officer, Canada. Explore, Discover And Learn This year's data strategy event will explore how you as a data and analytics leader can prove the ROI from your analytics function, expand and deliver on insight-led decision-making and drive innovation within your … [Read more...] about Chief Data And Analytics Officer, Canada
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Accounting Profession
Artificial Intelligence or AI is defined as the capacity of machines and software to exhibit or imitate a sense of cognitive intelligence. The idea behind AI holds great potential and yet also raises many concerns. In fictions, scientific and otherwise, developing AI tools and applications, capable of thinking, learning and, reacting like living beings doesnt end very well. But … [Read more...] about The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Accounting Profession
How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Face of eCommerce
In 2016, the artificial intelligence and machine learning hype cycle reached fever pitch. Weve been here before; it seems as if revolutionary artificial intelligence has been on the cusp of reality for decades. Its understandable that many in the eCommerce world are skeptical, particularly smaller eCommerce merchants who have to be careful where they invest resources. Although … [Read more...] about How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Face of eCommerce
