Conversica lands $34 million Series B to build intelligent sales assistants

 After a potential customer has first contact with a business, sales gets in gear, often responding with…

Microsoft officially outs another AI chatbot, called Zo

 What are chatbots for? I asked Zo, Microsoft’s officially launched chatbot, currently available on the Kik…

Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco

 The autonomous cars won’t operate completely driverless, for the time being – as in Pittsburgh, where Uber…

How to DIY a Westworld host at home

 Building a Westworld host is kind of like putting together a piece of IKEA furniture while…

Microsoft to open Cortana virtual assistant to third-party devices and apps

 Microsoft is making Cortana available to third-party device makers, and opening up the platform to third-party…

Udacity adds 14 hiring partners as AI, VR and self-driving talent wars heat up

 Udacity is positioned perfectly to benefit from the rush on talent in a number of growing…

IEEE puts out a first draft guide for how tech can achieve ethical AI design

 One of the barriers standing in the way of ethically designed AI systems that benefit humanity…

TrademarkVision uses machine learning to make finding logos as easy as a reverse image search

 A company’s logo is an important part of its identity, but the processes behind defining, registering,…