Gathered around a conference room table, with one person scribbling on the whiteboard, a group of industry veterans sizzles with energy. Participants build on each other’s thoughts and bounce from… Read More
“We think of it, humbly, as the next generation of search and browsing.” That was a comment by Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft corporate vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, on… Read More
Editor’s note: This is a guest commentary from Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a Seattle-based organization at the forefront of natural language processing research.… Read More
For the past couple days, I’ve been trying out Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine, a chatbot that uses an advanced version of ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s large language model to… Read More
“It never gets old,” Eliav Cohen said as he raised his iPhone at the sun peeking over the Cascades one morning this week and added another image to the 37,000… Read More
Nothing like an email from Taylor Swift’s lawyers to get your attention during vacation. That was the case for Microsoft President Brad Smith, who recounts in his new book a… Read More
Software developers stuck with a thorny programming problem now have a new option when browsing Stack Overflow: a chatbot built using Microsoft’s artificial intelligence technology. Introduced during a session at… Read More
ReplyYes has been accepted into the Disney Accelerator’s 2017 class to continue building out its chat commerce platform that allows retailers to sell products to customers via text message. The… Read More
Interpreting data is a hard job, especially when you need answers on the fly. Tune, the Seattle-based marketing technology company, is hoping to make quick data queries easier for marketers… Read More
John deVadoss, Peng Huang, and David Hill have known that they wanted to go into business together for years. They met on the .NET team at Microsoft where they developed… Read More
Golden State Warriors fans now have a new tech-powered assistant at their disposal during the NBA Playoffs. The Bay Area-based NBA team rolled out a new Facebook Messenger bot today… Read More
ReplyYes, a chat commerce startup that spun out of Madrona Venture Labs, has raised $6.5 million of a $9.3 million Series A round. CEO Dave Cotter confirmed the investment but… Read More
Nordstrom is expanding on its efforts to engage with mobile shoppers, using the holiday gift-giving season as an opportunity to launch its first-ever chatbot. If you can’t decide what kind of… Read More
Microsoft is back with another AI chatbot. The company is testing “Zo,” as spotted by MSPowerUser, on the Kik messaging platform. The arrival of “Zo” comes eight months after Microsoft released… Read More
KITT.AI is rolling out its newest flagship product. Available today in beta, ChatFlow is a multi-platform framework for creating conversational agents, also known as chatbots. It provides a drag-and-drop interface… Read More
Before Siri, Cortana and Alexa, there was Next IT and its chatbots: The Spokane Valley company made it possible for you to “Ask Jenn” at Alaska Airlines, or “Ask Julie”… Read More
Sports fans, meet chatbots. theScore, a publicly-traded mobile-focused sports media company based in Toronto, today announced that it is the first sports company to use chatbots on Facebook Messenger. theScore’s… Read More
Microsoft’s experiment with AI chatbot Tay may not have gone too well, but the company is still working on other chat bots to help users converse with artificial intelligences more naturally. A… Read More
Polly.ai is utilizing chatbots to help managers assess employee happiness. The Seattle-based startup on Tuesday officially rolled out its chatbot product, which integrates with popular office collaboration app Slack and lets managers… Read More
The world of chatbots is growing quickly. Microsoft and Facebook both have frameworks to let third parties build bots into their chat services. But the artificial intelligence behind them is still pretty basic. Next… Read More
Facebook today announced a chatbot platform that lets businesses offer automated customer support via the Messenger app, joining a bevy of tech companies building similar chatbot technology. At the company’s F8 developers conference, Facebook… Read More
