Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and the King’s new clothes?

Artificial Intelligence is an important part of Threads. But what exactly is artificial intelligence? Some things that were considered intelligent 20 years ago and now just number crunching. In his article John Yardley discusses this and how a return to some ideas that had gone out of fashion may see some exciting new developments.

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Why You Shouldn’t Wait for Speech Recognition to Catch Up

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is one of those technologies you either love or hate. Sadly, a large number of businesses (mainly financial institutions) have decided it’s cheaper to get a computer to answer the telephone than to pay a human, and undoubtedly this generates the most hate.. Read more on why you shouldn’t wait for speech recognition to catch up.

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