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Ben McCulloch
August 18, 2022

Why Aflorithmic is the WordPress of audio production

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Sound production is complex but Aflorithmic helps people create automated soundtracks as easily as building a website.<!–more–> Sound designers and music composers make thousands of tiny choices in everything they…

Kane Simms
August 16, 2022

The 2 things holding AI assistants back (and it’s not tech)

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We’ve long had a vision for what AI assistants could be capable of. Hal, Computer from Star Trek, Kitt from Knightrider, Holly from Red Dwarf, JARVIS from Ironman, Samantha from…

Ben McCulloch
August 5, 2022

A novel approach to designing bot personas

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“There is no such thing as a voice user interface with no personality,” according to Voice User Interface Design, written by Michael H. Cohen, James P. Giangola and Jennifer Balogh in…

Ben McCulloch
July 27, 2022

How ABN AMRO bank developed AI maturity

How ABN AMRO bank developed AI maturity https://vux.world/wp-content/uploads/ABN_AMRO.jpg 1120 840 Ben McCulloch Ben McCulloch https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b1f3549c2d953651d69f59ec1fa801a3?s=96&d=blank&r=g July 27, 2022 July 27, 2022

Although conversational AI has decades of history, there’s relatively few companies around who you would call mature in AI terms. But here’s one.

Ben McCulloch
July 25, 2022

How LNER’s digital human could revolutionise train travel

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Bots take many shapes and forms, and each has their unique challenges. How about this one though – a digital human installed in a busy train station concourse in England?

Ben McCulloch
July 5, 2022

Decathlon’s 5 year automation strategy took 6 months thanks to AI

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Despite the pains and sadness of the pandemic, there have been some curious and exciting developments. The sudden jolt to normal life caused many brands to rapidly change, with many…

Ben McCulloch
June 28, 2022

Landry’s find the perfect use case for a voice assistant

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Landry’s Inc. is a US-based corporation that has 72 restaurant brands and 600 restaurants, hotels, casinos and entertainment destinations across the US, turning over $3 billion in annual revenue. The…

Ben McCulloch
June 13, 2022

Why NLU training needs brains

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While preparing this blog I had an uncanny moment.

Ben McCulloch
June 10, 2022

Do you know enough about AI to use it responsibly?

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If you work with AI then data is one of the building blocks of your business. Discussions around data invariably bring up jargon. Do you know your ‘neural parsers’ from…

Ben McCulloch
June 1, 2022

A ground-breaking ‘human-in-the-loop’ approach to AI

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One amazing thing about the conversational AI ecosystem is the level of innovation we see every week. Here’s a ground-breaking innovation for human-in-the-loop AI.

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