“Launching a digital assistant enabled by artificial intelligence is noteworthy by itself. More significant: ‘Truist Assist,’ built from a clean slate in a year’s time, and tightly integrated with the bank’s contact center, signals the giant merger of equals that created Truist Financial is (finally) starting to click. Some digital assistants in banking have ‘personas,’…
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Chipotle is moving its tortilla robot to a real restaurant
“Chipotle’s tortilla-making robot will soon help out in a restaurant you can visit. The chain has unveiled a slew of technology updates that include moving the Miso Robotics-made Chippy robot to a real restaurant. The machine will start cooking tortilla chips in a Fountain Valley, California location in October. Chipotle is piloting a demand-based cooking…
7 AI startups aim to give retailers a happy holiday season
“Santa Clara, California-based AiFi offers a frictionless and cashierless retail AI-powered solution deployed in diverse locations such as sports stadiums, music festivals, grocery store chains and college campuses. Steve Gu cofounded AiFi in 2016 with his wife, Ying Zheng, and raised a fresh $65 million in March. Both Gu and Zheng have Ph.D.s in computer…
‘The democratization of AI has never been stronger,’ Louder Co. CEO says — here’s what that means for smaller businesses
“Andrew Louder is CEO of Louder Co., an AI in operations consulting firm that works with companies under a hundred million to help use AI to help them become more profitable. AI used to be hard to attain, expensive oftentimes just for the bigger companies with the bigger budgets. We’re at a point in time…
Tesla AI Day Spotlights Optimus Robot, Self-Driving Cars: Here’s How to Watch
“The company hasn’t yet shared details on tuning into the AI event, but it’ll likely be streamed on its YouTube account like the first Tesla AI Day. That’s what Musk has used for high-profile events for the carmaker and two of his other companies, rocket maker SpaceX and brain-computer interconnect designer Neuralink.” https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/tesla-ai-day-spotlights-optimus-robot-self-driving-cars-how-to-watch/