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This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Digital Media Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Facebook has released an explainer on artificial intelligence (AI) with commentary from Yann Lecun, the company’s head of AI research. This consists of a written post outlining the principles of AI, and

Emotional intelligence is a hard thing to achieve, even in humans. But it’s especially difficult in robots, and maybe even more so in chatbots, whose available tools for picking up on emotional cues are quite limited. Emotibot is a Chinese startup that’s focused on making sure personal assistants, chatbots and

Last week on Black Friday we held our first Facebook Live broadcast featuring a conversation with three ecommerce experts discussing what retailers can do to be successful during the holiday season.  Key points discussed include: Online shopping just keeps getting bigger! $1.15 billion in online sales was generated the day

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Amazon is opening up its machine-learning capabilities to third-party developers with its new AI platform, according to TechCrunch. The service, which was introduced at Amazon’s re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas on

VentureBeat’s Bots Channel tracks all the important and interesting news related to the exploding field of bots and messaging. Each week, we select the top stories and present them in in our free weekly newsletter, BotBeat. We include news stories by VentureBeat staff, guest articles from leading figures in the bots community, and

Graduations, Weddings, Births, Holidays, Star Wars … yawn. Let’s get to the good stuff for the coming year that’s going to shape your marketing strategy.   Here are three major social media trends you absolutely shouldn’t be overlooking in 2017. Facebook boasts almost 1.8 billion monthly active users (MAUs). And the crazy thing

Chatbots have been a trending topic for quite some time now and have got a lot of people excited about them. Some believe that bots are the next big thing and will soon replace apps, while others think they are just a fad, bound to fail. In this article we

Over the past year, the swell of chatbots and virtual assistants has grown larger, and their capabilities have grown more complex. Want a bot to schedule your meetings? Collect employee status updates? Remind you to bring an umbrella if it’s going to rain? Done, done, and done. But while completing

Facebook Twitter Gmail LinkedIn 5 Financial Chatbots Tyler Griffin, Entrepreneur in Residence at CFSI, recently wrote a wonderful article on financial chatbots, covering the history of their use with a focus on the modern-day user experience and highlighting their current limitations, especially those not powered by “true artificial intelligence.” Griffin’s

Amazon today announced the launch of its new Amazon AI platform at its re:Invent developer event in Las Vegas. This new service brings many of the machine learning smarts Amazon has developed in-house over the years to developers outside the company. For now, the service only makes three different tools available

It’s been the year of the AI announcement and Amazon Web Services (AWS) wasn’t about to buck the trend at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. So it was that Andy Jassy  announced a trio of new AI services, designed to help developers take advantage of the company’s machine

From the early days of Amazon, Machine learning (ML) has played a critical role in the value we bring to our customers. Around 20 years ago, we used machine learning in our recommendation engine to generate personalized recommendations for our customers. Today, there are thousands of machine learning scientists and

Dashbot announced today that investors are ready to support its mission to be the Google Analytics for bots. The company has raised a $2 million seed round led by ff Venture Capital. The investment will be used to bring in more talent and improve the company’s product, which now supports more

The time has come. Following years of mounting interest in a type of artificial intelligence (AI) called deep learning, the biggest public cloud infrastructure provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS), today announced its first Amazon AI services that make use of deep learning. Deep learning generally involves training artificial neural networks

Join the Free Preview Program Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Lex provides the advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text,