We have enormous amounts of knowledge at our disposal so you’d think it would be easy to become an expert these days. If only this were true! Sadly we aren’t
I’ve always been so grateful whenever I’ve received a helpful recommendation of what to read or watch. This led me to consider whether it was possible to build a service
We equate ‘Intelligence’ in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to a form of learning where we arrive at decisions through logical steps and calculations. It makes sense and appears to be the
In the battle between AI vs human, one vital thing AI can’t give you is first hand experience. When it comes to advice or recommendations in particular, the benefit of
Reason or the act of reasoning is a hard thing to pin down. It seems similar to Logic but it also feels close to understanding. What is Reason? The exact
Guest post by Paul Golding, Full Stack Engineer and AI Specialist at Meta With recent advances in AI towards language understanding (LU), there is increased enthusiasm for digital marketing
I’m a machine and I cannot understand humans. Some mysterious element drives them to do things that have no reasonable explanation. This element, they call it the ‘human spirit’, it
Chatbots can benefit from paying attention to what is not said. In any conversation there is a skill to reading between the lines. The way you say something is just
What is human intelligence? A formal definition is ‘the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills’. It turns out an all encompassing definition for intelligence is not easy to
There are assistants and then there are agents. The way they behave is different. Even among agents themselves there are differences. Some agents simply ‘act on someone else’s behalf’ but
Artificial Intelligence, whether that’s applying machine learning or something else, needs to incorporate empathy in order to perform better for humans. Research and analysis is leading us to the conclusion
Imagine there were home speaker devices in stores while we were shopping. What useful assistance could they provide? When a customer visits a store, the shop assistant on most occasions
Why do we help each other? Humans usually like to help each other. It makes us feel good to help someone else and we’d like to think others would offer
There is an open desire to make AI ‘more human’. Recent announcements for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI shows that the industry and researchers know they need to focus
Working out a person’s intent is hard to calculate. In a given situation, intent is made up of different factors including: the likely outcome based on experience of yourself and
One of the biggest challenge in AI is figuring out a way to prevent bias. This is a huge problem to solve as the algorithms being developed and the data
Imitation could be a way to solve particular problems in human computer interaction. AI uses machine or deep learning which is applied for complex problem solving to learn in the