Summary:  Which is more important, the data or the algorithms?  This chicken and egg question led me to realize that it’s the data, and specifically the way we store and process the data that has dominated data science over the last 10 years.  And it all leads back to Hadoop.

Recently I was challenged to speak on the role of data in data…

Summary:  This is the third in our series on chatbots.  In this installment we’ll look at the best practice dos and don’ts as described by a number of successful chatbot developers.

In our first article we covered the chatbot basics…

Summary:  This is the second in our chatbot series.  Here we explore Natural Language Understanding (NLU), the front end of all chatbots.  We’ll discuss the programming necessary to build rules based chatbots and then look at the use of deep learning algorithms that are the basis for AI enabled chatbots.

In our last article which was…

Summary:  There’s a three way technology race to bring faster, easier, cheaper, and smarter AI.  High Performance Computing is available today but so are new commercial versions of actual Quantum computers and Neuromorphic Spiking Neural Nets.  These two new entrants are going to revolutionize AI and deep learning starting now.

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Summary:  This is the first in a series about Chatbots.  In this first installment we cover the basics including their brief technological history, uses, basic design choices, and where deep learning comes into play.  In subsequent articles we’ll describe in more detail about how they are actually programmed and best practice dos and don’ts.

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