The accelerated adoption of chatbots and voice enabled applications is unprecedented. Almost every day new stats appear about the thousands upon thousands of new chatbots appearing in the main messaging platforms or the hundreds of skills being added to Amazon's Alexa. This "Voice First Revolution" is catching fire,...
Earlier this week Mary Meeker of KPCB presented and published a 213 slide dossier on Internet trends for 2016. A good chunk of this was devoted to the rise of ‘Voice as Computing Interface’, which I found particularly fascinating. Mary’s presentation centred largely on voice, and voice...
WWDC rapid approaches, and with it a rash of rumours about new products and offerings. Siri is perhaps the most topical on the rumour mill with talk of an Amazon Echo competitor, the opening of the Siri SDK, along with an uplift in features courtesy...
A few years ago whilst working at Artificial Solutions my skunkworks team put together a prototype dev portal that would allow any developer to create Natural Language features for their own apps or be plugged into what was to become our virtual assistant, subsequently named Indigo....
As each week passes my Google Alerts and news crawlers are filling up with more and more stories about a new virtual assistant or bot that someone has launched. Just as websites spread across the internet in the 1990s, these bots are appearing everywhere now, as standalone apps on...
Softer networking tactics aside I'm convinced the traditional recruitment process is broken. It's inefficient, lengthy, and costing candidates and recruiters dearly in time, wasted effort and lost opportunity. There is light at the end of the tunnel though! 1. The Pre-Interview Process: Recently I read this: Employers spend...