#ConvComm
Everything related to brands, services, companies, and bots entering conversational contexts (voice, messaging, etc). #ConvComm
Collection by Chris Messina
San Francisco Chronicle
He couldn’t get over his fiancee’s death. So he brought her back as an A.I. chatbot
20+ min · · The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious artificial intelligence website allow him to speak with her once more? · Shared by 370, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jessica Gioglio, kate wagner (rilke era), Josh Wolfe, Andreas Staub, Chris Messina, Carolina A. Miranda, Tactical Tech, Polina M. Pompliano, Bob E. Hayes, Avinash Kaushik, Mathew Ingram, Gerd Leonhard, John Hagel, Dr. Alec Couros, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Jason Hirschhorn, Wilhelm Su, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Chris MacDonald
The Atlantic
Alexa, Should We Trust You?
20+ min · · Shared by 241, including Dominik Grolimund, Charles Baldwin, Stefan Diepolder, luis antónio santos, Leif Wolkenhauer, Chris Messina, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Brian Roemmele, Affectiva, Kim Dik, Gerd Leonhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, ANGELS_ONLY, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Andreas Spiegler
TechCrunch
Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps
7 min · · Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. But they could… · Shared by 214, including Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Ben Parr, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Hailley Griffis, Amanda Goetz, Johannes Lenz, John Rampton, Warren Whitlock, Ouriel @Zengo, Chris Messina, hiten.eth, Jan Firsching 🆒, Bill Johnston, Fanzo, Kunal Bhatia, Sachin Rekhi
blog.google
LaMDA: our breakthrough conversation technology
1 min · · LaMDA adds pieces to one of the most tantalizing sections of the language puzzle: conversation. · Shared by 180, including @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Pete Skomoroch, Richard MacManus, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Bob E. Hayes, @timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Markus Maurer, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Chris Messina, Paul Roetzer
The Wall Street Journal
Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users
3 min · · Facebook has asked large U.S. banks to share detailed financial information about customers, including card transactions and checking-account balances, as it seeks to boost user engagement. · Shared by 153, including Matt Navarra, Jacob Jarnvall, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, David Kirkpatrick, Data Science Renee, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Chris Messina, Thomas Power, Bjorn Larsen, Alex Barrera, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Gérard Godin, Howard Getson, Lukas Stickelberger, Stephen C Sanders, Chris Michael
The New York Times
Amazon, the Brand Buster
11+ min · · Amazon has introduced dozens of private label goods in the past year, and is using the power of its global marketplace to steer shoppers to its own products. · Shared by 144, including Christian P. Stobbe, Thomas Power, Derek Brown, Scott Brinker, Dominik Grolimund, Ron McIntyre, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Anthony Hamelle, Kashmir Hill, Yvette Dubel, Jacob Jarnvall, Klaus Eck, Mark Kaigwa, Chris Messina, Thomas Pleil, Benedict Evans, justin, Claudia Sommer, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Ryan Hoover
WIRED UK
The secrets behind the runaway success of Apple’s AirPods
4 min · · The wireless headphones have been a surprise hit. Here’s how · Shared by 139, including Sachin Rekhi, Katja Evertz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Rene Ritchie, Michael (मुकेश), Chris Messina
Google AI
Towards a Conversational Agent that Can Chat About…Anything
5 min · · Posted by Daniel Adiwardana, Senior Research Engineer, and Thang Luong, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Modern co... · Shared by 138, including Chris Messina, Mike Tamir, PhD, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, 瑞拿頭, Jose Luis Calvo, Katja Evertz, Carla Gentry 🎶, sircharlsxavier, Oleg Baskov, Johannes Lenz, Bill Johnston, Dr Catherine Breslin, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Desmond Williams, #DigitalHealth Futurist 👨💻, Elena Neira
BuzzFeed News
A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media Influencer Account That's 100% Automated
4 min · · A data engineer who created a 100% automated Instagram account to earn free meals at restaurants looking for promotion is offering his services to clients too. · Shared by 119, including Adam Tinworth, Mark Kaigwa, Mike Ivars, Marsha Collier, rogerverhoeven, fernand0, George M 🇪🇺, Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Matt Navarra, Oliver Ewinger
Input
Teens are hacking Instagram into a modern-day eBay
6 min · · Entrepreneurial kids have figured out the future of the thrift shop: Instagram comments. · Shared by 118, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Scott Monty, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Jonathan Kogan, Matt Navarra, Katja Evertz, Mark Kaigwa, Jon Keegan 🇺🇦, Chris Messina, Oliver Reichenstein, Remo Uherek
perspectiveapi.com
Perspective
8 min · · Shared by 114, including Chung, Mark Kaigwa, #DigitalHealth Futurist 👨💻, Max Stoiber, Kyle McDonald, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Dominik Grolimund, #MuskOut (not parody), luis antónio santos, Pascal Birchler, Linus Basig, Daniel Jörg, Scott Williams, Selim Imoberdorf, Andrea Desiato, Leslie D, Matthias Sala, Chris Messina, Stephen C Sanders, Niklaus Gerber
VentureBeat
Google launches TensorFlow machine learning framework for graphical data
1 min · · Google's Neural Structured Learning is an open source framework that works with TensorFlow to train neural networks with graphical data. · Shared by 111, including Remy Bataille, Yves Mulkers, Chris Messina, Johannes Dornisch, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️
The Verge
Google Pay’s massive relaunch makes it an all-encompassing money app
10 min · · Google says all of this data won’t be used for ads, but it’s still a lot of data to give to Google. · Shared by 100, including Peter Schmidhuber, rogerverhoeven, Sebastien Meunier, Chris Messina, Chris Gledhill, felix salmon, dunschtig, Michael (मुकेश), Florian Graillot
The New Yorker
How Frightened Should We Be of A.I.?
20+ min · · Thinking about artificial intelligence can help clarify what makes us human—for better and for worse. · Shared by 99, including Thomas Power, Future of Life Institute, Niklaus Gerber, ThomNagy, Dominik Grolimund, #bottish, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Dayyan Smith, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Ward Plunet, Chris Messina, Esther Schindler, Shawn Venasse
CB Insights
Lessons From The Failed Chatbot Revolution — And 5 Industries Where The Tech Is Making A Comeback
20+ min · · While many chatbots didn't live up to the hype, industries like fintech, healthcare, and retail are quietly adopting the technology to free up busy professionals’ time and offer guided, personalized… · Shared by 76, including Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Shawn Venasse, 💥 Katie Martell, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Adrian Swinscoe, Jim Marous 💯, Terence Mills, Tom Connor, Chris Messina
VentureBeat
AI researchers launch SuperGLUE, a rigorous benchmark for language understanding
2 min · · A consortium of AI researchers from Facebook, NYU, and Google's DeepMind have created SuperGLUE, a benchmark for more nuanced, complex conversational AI. · Shared by 74, including Faik Ersoy, Thomas Telandro, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Chris Messina, Dominik Grolimund, Ward Plunet, Bernhard Huessy, Gerrit Eicker