New Data Indicates People Don't Use Chatbots Like We Think

Interesting stats in this article, in particular around most successful use cases. We hear a lot of companies often express trepidation around where to start--having difficulty deciding which use case to prioritize first. This article points to post-purchase support as being the best place to start given the average consumer’s general sentiment towards ‘em. 

DeepMind's New Research on Linking Memories, and How It Applies to AI

Woah. Grab a nice Friday Happy Hour 🍺and settle in for an enthralling look at how a brain processes thought, recalls memory, and how DeepMind is doing it’s best to replicate it. Anyone want to be a Hippocampus for halloween?

Apple Tests Predictive Keyboard That Taps Ai To Read Whole Documents

Cool write up on Apple’s work to provide predictive text by gleaning context from an entire document, not just the words before and after. We love this ambitious NLP undertaking but they seem to have the right deep learning via neural networks to do it!

AI R&D: DARPA Investing $2 Billion in Contextual Reasoning

A step in the right direction. Really cool to see this degree of investment to prioritize an inevitable part of all our futures: AI.