“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…
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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/
Banking: More personalised services could be delivered with AI
“Retail investors are prone to two key mistakes. First, they tend to buy at the peak and sell at the bottom because these decisions are heavily driven by emotions. Second, people tend not to review their portfolios, particularly if they are already underperforming. This is another problematic behavioural trait that AI can help improve. We…
How Facebook deals with the fact AI is a mess on smartphones
“Apple, they write, stands out: its “Metal” API for iOS runs on a consistent chip platform and the GPUs in those chips are higher-performance, on average, “making Metal on iOS devices with GPUs an attractive target for efficient neural network inference.” Even then, however, the results of a “rigorous” examination of the speed of inference…