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Digamma.ai Q&A Series: Karen Ouk of mode.ai

August 8, 2017
by Tanya Wehr
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Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / Machine Learning
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Digamma.ai Q&A Series: Interview with Karen Ouk, SVP Business Development at mode.ai, which builds AI-powered B2B2C visual chatbots for retailers. 1. mode.ai’s mission is to allow users to rediscover shopping in a more visual, conversational and personalized way. Why is this relevant now on the consumer front? There are three components of our mission: visual search, conversational commerce and personalization. Visual search allows us to offer features that purely text-based search cannot accomplish. For example, say […]

Digamma.ai CEO Q&A Series: Jarrod Wolf of AddStructure

July 26, 2017
by Tanya Wehr
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
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Digamma.ai CEO Q&A Series: Interview with Jarrod Wolf, co-founder of AddStructure 1. How are you looking to fundamentally change the customer shopping experience through Addstructure? With our technology we’re hoping to make the shopping experience much more seamless. Imagine looking at your phone and using your voice to speak. As you’re speaking, the product mix that is being displayed to you is updating in real time. You can say something like, “I’m looking for a […]

Digamma.ai CEO Q&A Series: Mark Chung of Verdigris

June 30, 2017
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
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Digamma.ai CEO Q&A Series: Interview with Mark Chung, CEO and Co-Founder at Verdigris. 1. Verdigris provides real-time energy intelligence for facilities managers, enabling them to react faster with device-level monitoring and real-time alerts. What are the implications of your company’s technology on the building industry and to a larger extent, the environment? We target mission-critical facilities like distribution centers, factories, and even hotels because they are sources of major power consumption and often struggle to […]

The Five Food and Restaurant AI Chatbots You Should Know About

June 30, 2017
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Artificial Intelligence / chatbot / Machine Learning
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Facebook Messenger chatbots have major potential, even if the field is relatively nascent one.  With Facebook launching Discover, a hub inside Messenger for discovering new and interesting chatbots to message with, there’s no excuse not to try out a new chatbot this summer — especially a food-related one. From analyzing your receipts to providing awesome restaurant recommendations, the following list represents a veritable freshmen class of powerful, value-adding, food and restaurants AI chatbots. Lunchcat Lunchcat, created by […]

Machine Learning Consultants Digamma.ai Team Up With Udacity to Address the AI Knowledge Gap

May 29, 2017
by Tanya Wehr
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
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The artificial intelligence and machine learning community is quickly becoming one of the most dynamic, exciting and global ones. VCs have been fast to take notice of what is not just a passing trend, but an indicator of just how much artificial intelligence is positioned to change fundamental aspects of our society, from the division of labour to how we make decisions on a day-to-day basis. In fact, the number of VC-backed investments in AI […]

Two Artificial Intelligence Trends That Will Change the World — And How To Benefit From Them (Part II)

May 4, 2017
by Tanya Wehr
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Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / Machine Learning
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Continued from Part I: Two Artificial Intelligence Trends That Will Change the World — And How To Benefit From Them 2. AI Will Touch and Change Nearly Every Job, Even White Collar Ones Blue collar jobs previously thought vulnerable to AI are now not the only ones. In fact, AI is already disrupting white collar industries and many professional jobs aren’t as safe as once thought. As Erik Sherman at Fortune commented, “researchers are beginning […]

How AI and Machine Learning Will Revolutionize the Health Industry

April 27, 2017
by Tanya Wehr
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Artificial Intelligence / Healthcare / Machine Learning
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Imagine if humans could train themselves to give more precise diagnoses. Over time, medical misdiagnosis would abate, save countless lives, and not to mention save hospitals, patients, and their families millions of dollars every year. Pharmaceutical industries, too, would be able to keep their stock orders in far more accurate conditions, keeping their reserves continuously maintained for predictive demand. Now consider that in the distant future, your surgery could be performed by an enhanced robot. […]

Two AI Trends That Will Change the World — And How To Benefit From Them (Part I)

April 14, 2017
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Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / Machine Learning
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In a recent interview of Andrew Ng and Neil Jacobstein on AI, Wall Street Journal reporter Scott Austin claimed that, “artificial intelligence is shaping up as the next industrial revolution, poised to rapidly reinvent business, the global economy and how people work and interact with each other.” Andrew Ng is chief scientist at Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. and co-founder of the education startup Coursera. Neil Jacobstein is chair of the artificial intelligence and robotics department […]

5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Make Your Business More Profitable

April 12, 2017
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1. Automation Artificial intelligence is becoming so advanced that we’re currently seeing honorary disciplines being aided, though not yet replaced, with computerized assistance. Some customary journalistic tasks are already being carried out by AI, such as summarizing reports, analysis, and pulling data from A to B to gauge further intelligence. Other advancements are being made within the administrative field at a growing rate, with AI able to schedule meetings, note down important items, and take […]

Nobody To Hire? The Real-Life Artificial Intelligence Developer Talent Grab

April 12, 2017
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
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2017 has been dubbed the year of artificial intelligence. Deloitte’s 2017 Global Human Capital Trends report claims that AI has “revolutionized” the way people work and live while remaining vague on the details of how. If our media is any indication of what trends are here to stay, AI and machine learning technologies are it—and their staying power appears to be multiplying. From our driving, socializing and working habits, AI seems to be touching—or slowly […]