Own The Conversation - Issue #34

In “PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways”, we introduce the Pathways Language Model (PaLM), a 540-billion parameter, dense decoder-only Transformer model trained with the Pathways system, which enabled us to efficiently train a single model across multiple TPU v4 Pods.

The need to implement digital and AI solutions is now imperative to be competitive.

With the majority of the world having been put on hold over the last two years, people have found the drive to pursue a more digital existence. This motivation has ultimately led to the launch of a variety of ways to enjoy virtuality, such as with VR technology.

Avaamo, a leading provider of the Conversational AI solutions, today announced it is adding a new capability to help businesses reimagine their self-service experiences using life-like AI voices.

Voice and messaging are talking customers along step by step from engagement to interaction to transaction, without blowing the sale or frustrating the user.

DARPA is launching a program that aims to better align AI with human intentions.

Cerence delivers a completely voice-controlled karaoke experience designed specifically for drivers, powered by Stingray’s API technology and a catalog of more than 100,000 songs. VinFast signs on as the first customer, integrating Cerence Sing into the VF 8 and VF 9.

Google new software update includes a feature that lets drivers pay for parking using their voice through a partnership with Parkmobile.

General Motors’ talent acquisition strategy includes new tools to improve recruiter efficiency, including chatbots, automated scheduling and candidate grading systems.

The world has seen how conventional business models, disrupted by the pandemic, made organizations rethink customer service strategies. Given this parlance, we have noticed a significant upgrade in the efficiency of chatbots. Smarter and more contextual, chatbots are catering to today’s growing population of digital customers.

Danish customer support innovator Dixa has today announced the acquisitions of analytics leader Miuros, and automation pioneer Solvemate. Driven by a need amongst service teams to connect to customers with intelligence, empathy, and the right information, the double acquisition is valued at $43 million and strengthens Dixa’s long-term vision to set a new standard in experience and data-driven conversational customer service

Socrates.ai, a leading employee experience platform, and Jobma, a digital interviewing company that simplifies hiring, today announced an alliance that leverages each organization’s expertise in the candidate to employee journey.

SentiOne is a place where state-of-the-art solutions are built by passionate and ambitious people, flat structure, no micromanagement, no dress code, TAWBATOT after work, celebrating every possible occasion - that’s life at SentiOne. 

We’re looking for a Conversational AI Architect to join our growing bot design team, working on our SentiOne Automate platform.

At Heyday by Hootsuite, we’re a fun mix of passionate and smart developers, designers, marketers, product managers, salespeople, and analysts. With our diverse skills and expertise, we work together as one team, while doing our best work. Here we emphasize collaboration, transparency, integrity and empathy. You’ll build serverless microservices and design data architecture in an environment where AI and chatbots reign supreme. You’ll be the owner of your code with a devops mindset.

Online Networking Events About Conversational AI & Chatbots! Walk around in the virtual conference room and meet inspiring people!

Each year, the VOICE Developer Conference unites semiconductor test professionals representing the world’s leading integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), foundries, fabless semiconductor companies and outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) providers to exchange information about the latest technology advancements, express new ideas, share best practices and network with one another.

Discover advances in NLP, and how application can help create digital assistants, chatbots and conversational interfaces to improve customer experience & increase engagement

The 14th Pan-European Voice Conference has been postponed and will take place on 24-27 August 2022 in Tallinn, Estonia. The conference will take place in the new building of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.