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What are the latest techniques for making natural language bots more fluent & effective & where do commodity NLP systems leave us?
Further, learn successful chatbot techniques used for billion dollar brand like Disney, Lionsgate, Microsoft, & Amazon.
Thisevent continues our popular multi-speaker lineups & a return to chatbots! Learn from the CEO of Mercury.ai & the CTO of imperson.
Schedule:
6:00pm- Networking & Pizza
6:30pm- Kickoff & Sponsors (ThoughtWorks, IBM)
6:40pm- Talk #1: Stefan Trockel, Mercury.ai: Creating fluent natural language chatbot conversations
7:25pm- Talk #2: Eyal Pfeifel, imperson:Keys to Building Successful Chatbots for Billion Dollar Brands
8:00pm- Extended Q&A & Open Member Discussion
Talk #1Creating fluent natural language chatbot conversations
As we see the conversational UI paradigm spread & evolve we observe quite some misconceptions about their "intelligence" & the underlying technology. With a special focus on natural language chatbots (as compared to chat apps that operate by clicking buttons) the talk will explore the question of where we really find AI in chatbots & how we can achieve more fluent conversations.
Especially as NLP technologies become commoditized but dialogues remain static we must find that the key to natural conversation flow lies somewhere else. The talk will draw on concepts from linguistics & conversational analysis & compare different approaches to dialogue governance & connect them to specific challenges in chatbots. To round this all up there will be examples of how some of these conversational design challenges are solved in bots on the Mercury.ai platform.
Bio:Stefan Trockelis Co-founder & CEO at Mercury.ai, a conversational experience platform startup.He has worked with some iconic brands on bot projects & is a regular speaker on conversational AI & chatbots. Since the mid 90's Stefan has been engaged with creative technology & user experience. As a Strategy Director with agency giant Publicis he has consulted with global clients on digital innovation & transformation. Some years earlier Stefan worked at CITEC, a leading European research institute on cognitive interaction technologies. With his current work on conversational AI it turns out that his masters degree in linguistics holds some unexpected value.
Talk #2:Keys to Building Successful Chatbots for Billion Dollar Brands
Drawing from his experiences building chatbots for the likes of Disney, Amazon, Microsoft, Lionsgate, National Geographic, Steve Aoki, & many others,Eyalwill discuss the challenges he's faced, the lessons learned, & the technologies required to create a successful bot.
Bio:EyalPfeifel, CTO & Co-Founder, imperson
imperson is a Disney Accelerator alum & developers of conversational AI technology that power premium conversational bots via text, voice, & video.
Pfeifel is a technology visionary with more than 20 years of experience in software development. At imperson, he leads the charge in commercializing sophisticated language algorithms for building conversational bots that have personality, intent, natural learning capabilities, & relationship memory. Pfeifel has been the technology architect behind the earliest bot personas to come on the scene, bringing iconic characters like Miss Piggy & Doc Brown to life (even before Facebook F8, 2016) as well as recent chatbots that includes Genius (Albert Einstein) for National Geographic, Disney Pandora Park experience & Chandon consumer-facing chatbot.
Prior to imperson,Eyalwas CTO of Magic Software Enterprises, the first Israeli software company to go public on the NASDAQ.
**This event was is put on by the Bots & AI Meetup Group. We are one of the largest & highest rated meetups in NYC focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning & bots. Join us on our Meetup group to be notified of future events athttps://www.meetup.com/Bots-and-Artificial-Intelligence.
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