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Building Conversational Application for Financial Services with Kenneth Conroy - TWiML Talk #61
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
English - November 01, 2017 14:28 - 37 minutes - ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsTechnology News Tech News machinelearning artificialintelligence datascience samcharrington tech technology thetwimlaipocast thisweekinmachinelearning twiml twimlaipodcast Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The podcast you’re about to hear is the second of a series of shows recorded at the Georgian Partners Portfolio Conference last week in Toronto. My guest for this interview is Kenneth Conroy, VP of data science at Vancouver, Canada-based Finn.ai, a company building a chatbot system for banks. Kenneth and I spoke about how Finn.AI built its core conversational platform. We spoke in depth about the requirements and challenges of conversational applications, and how and why they transitioned off of a commercial chatbot platform--in their case API.ai--and built their own custom platform based on deep learning, word2vec and other natural language understanding technologies. The notes for this show can be found at https://twimlai.com/talk/61