Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello and welcome to Future Tech Podcast.

I'm your host, Juliet Lamar, and we have with us today, Andy Peart.

He is the chief marketing and strategy Officer at Artificial Solutions. Welcome,

Andy. Hello, Juliet. So nice to have you on. Likewise. I'm looking forward to it. Yes. So there's a lot

going on at Artificial Solutions. So why don't you give us a little bit of an overview of what you do there?

Sure.

As a company, we focus on a form of AI that is referred to as conversational AI.

Basically, it allows people to speak to devices, to applications, to websites.

In fact, a wide range of different channels in a very human-like, intelligent, and conversational way. Now, we've chosen to approach this rather thorny technological issue in a slightly different way than many in as much as we've

built a platform. It's a platform that's called Taneo, and it's a platform that allows non-specialists

to very quickly build these conversational systems

and once built to be able to deploy them in multiple languages across multiple platforms

and channels.

And there's another element to the story, and that's to do with the data, because when

people speak in a human-like way, they reveal an awful lot about what they're thinking.

You know, their like, their dislikes, their sentiment, what they're looking for.

And if you can capture that conversational data, it's like having a focus group, to be honest,

at your fingertips, but not a focus group of 20 people for an hour.

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