Month: December 2018
The Essence of Machine Learning
“Tom Mitchell A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E.1 Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio & Aaron Courville Machine learning is essentially a form of applied statistics…
Quote: Paper 2 – Stitch Fix’s CEO on Selling Personal Style to the Mass Market
“Data science isn’t woven into our culture; it is our culture. We started with it at the heart of the business, rather than adding it to a traditional organizational structure, and built the company’s algorithms around our clients and their needs. We employ more than 80 data scientists, the majority of whom have PhDs in…
Emotibot Secures USD 30 Million In Series B Round to Create the Industry’s Leading Chatbot and Multimodal Emotional Computing Platform
“Emotibot, a Chinese caring robot solutions provider, has secured USD 30 million in series B round funding, led by China Development Financial, followed by Cathay Financial Holdings. Its existing investors Ecovacs and Advantech Capital participated in this new funding round. Light House Capital served as exclusive financial advisor in the transaction. Founded in 2015, Emotibot…
Conversational AI goes mainstream at Capital One bank
“One of the world’s largest banks explains how it uses natural language processing and intelligent assistants to improve customer service on the web and mobile. Read this insider glimpse into the future of banking and user interfaces.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/conversational-ai-goes-mainstream-at-capital-one-bank/