“According to Drift’s 2020 State of Conversational Marketing report, about 25 per cent of consumers used the chatbot functionality to communicate with brands in 2020 instead of other traditional tools such as emails, phone calls, and social media interactions. Empathy is the core human trait that binds us together. Without an empathetic trait, we would…
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At WWDC, Apple finally turned all its devices into one big platform
“Stage Manager, an all-new interface for wrangling multiple apps and their overlapping windows, is coming to both MacOS Ventura and iPadOS 16. iOS’s new Lock Screen customizations clearly draw considerable inspiration from how watch faces work on the Apple Watch, and the interface for choosing them is remarkably similar. People without Apple Watches will still…
Bank Regulators Warn That Traditional Rules Also Apply to AI
“Financial regulators have yet to publish a comprehensive set of artificial intelligence (AI)-related rules, as most of the efforts have focused so far on guidelines and principles for financial institutions to make good use of AI. However, senior banking regulator officials warned on Friday (June 3) that existing regulation could also apply to AI. ‘If…
Roadblocks to getting real-time AI right
“Analysts estimate that by 2025, 30% of generated data will be real-time data. That is 52 zettabytes (ZB) of real-time data per year – roughly the amount of total data produced in 2020. Over the last decade, technologies have been developed by the likes of Materialize, Deephaven, Kafka and Redpanda to work with these streams…
For the metaverse to grow, mobile digital identities are necessary
“Gartner expects that by 2026, ‘25% of people will spend at least one hour a day in the metaverse for work, shopping, education, social media and/or entertainment.’ I believe that the metaverse isn’t just a destination we reach through technological devices, but rather a digital identity we carry across platforms and experiences. It seems that…