Nikola Mrkšić, CEO & Co-Founder of PolyAI, takes Daniel and Chris on a deep dive into conversational AI, describing the underlying technologies, and teaching them about the next generation of voice assistants that will be capable of handling true human-level conversations. It’s an episode you’ll be talking about for a long time!

Nikola Mrkšić, CEO & Co-Founder of PolyAI, takes Daniel and Chris on a deep dive into conversational AI, describing the underlying technologies, and teaching them about the next generation of voice assistants that will be capable of handling true human-level conversations. It’s an episode you’ll be talking about for a long time!

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Nikola Mrkšić – Twitter, GitHubChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:


-PolyAI

-The Science Behind PolyAI

-How Customer Service Voice Assistants Handle Different Languages and Accents

-PolyAI Maintains Lead Over IBM Watson Assistant and Other Popular Language Understanding Models

-PolyAI’s ConveRT Model Outperforms BERT and GPT-Based Models in Salesforce Research Evaluation

-Few-Shot Slot Labeling with ConVEx: The Most Accurate Value Extractor on The Market

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