Haptik rolls out chatbot solutions on AWS AI platform
Indian artificial intelligence based chatbot platform Haptik said it has built its chatbot solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) artificial intelligence platform. The conversational bots will automate some of the processes across customer support, lead generation and sales funnel management. With the … Read More
Interview: How Chat Augments The Healthcare Experience
Chatbots are becoming increasingly commonplace to deliver better consumer experience—especially in healthcare, where they serve as an accessible first touchpoint for patients and professionals. For our podcast on chat as an interface, entrepreneur Justin Holland spoke to PSFK founder and … Read More
Our Bots, Ourselves
The New York Times recently wrote about the fraught existence of “conversational chatbots.” The Times explained that the best way to make these systems more sophisticated is to increase the number of people who use them, but that carries its own risk. Remember Microsoft's Tay bot, the Holocaust … Read More
Every single adorable picture of Stormi Webster that exists on this Kardashian-Jenner-obsessed …
Stormi Webster is the baby that everyone hoped was coming, but no one actually knew was coming until Kylie Jenner dropped the YouTube video-shaped bombshell on February 4, 2018 — catching up the world on the last nine months of brewing her baby girl and giving birth. The Kardashian-Jenner … Read …
How to view your friends and their stories on Snapchat
Since the Snapchat update that happened in February, a number of people have boycotted the app altogether. Even its biggest proponent Kylie Jenner stayed away for a while. If you're committed to sharing your videos and pictures with the world, though, it's hard to say goodbye. Really, it's just about … …
Walk out, get smart
This national moment about guns, school killings, mental health and NRA hoopla has been powered by social media platforms like Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook. This time these tech monoliths may be stimulating true social benefits, as opposed to the usual rubbish and time-suck we suffer through … Read More
Erickson Park bids come in under budget
CHIPPEWA FALLS — Bids for the Erickson Park improvement project in Chippewa Falls came in lower than expected, which has officials excited about moving forward with the renovations. Four bids were opened Tuesday at Chippewa Falls City Hall. The lowest bid was $1,650,398.25 from Haas Sons … Read More
Sotto exposé has echoes of YouTube video on 2016 poll fraud
Senate Minority Leader Vicente “Tito” Sotto III on Tuesday bared that an “impeccable source” disclosed to him that there was already a “transmission” of votes a day before polling precincts opened for the 2016 National Elections. Sotto, in a privilege speech, said that while Smartmatic can say that the … Read …
Nickelodeon will use VR and AR to keep kids off Netflix and YouTube
Kids are definitely migrating to other places — we don't pretend they don't love Netflix and they don't love YouTube — but what we are able to do is set up a mass simultaneous audience, which is still important to a lot of people." She added that thanks to "a …
Erasing History: YouTube’s Deletion Of Syria War Videos Concerns Human Rights Groups
YouTube hosts 4 million videos related to Syria that have been uploaded since the outbreak of the war in 2011, according to Keith Hiatt, vice president of the human rights program at Benetech, a technology nonprofit. But YouTube, whose first video in 2005 depicts one of the company's cofounders in … …