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Were you wondering what Lance Berks, SVP of Amelia did next after the company was purchased by SoundHound? Here's your answer: He's joined Financial Services Conversational AI leader, Kasisto, as their new CEO (see the press release). This comes a month after the company raised its
News in from the team at Bain & Company today. They're announcing an expanded partnership with OpenAI. I've placed the release below as I'm sure it will be of specific interest to quite a few readers. Here are some takeaways that I picked out:
This is obviously a fake headline, right? Can you imagine if that was a real headline? Can you imagine if the headline was: "Microsoft announces new guardrail tool to reduce Excel calculation errors" How did you react? Reduce Excel calculation errors? Did you say reduce? As in… there
I sat down with the top person at a Tier 1 bank the other day. The individual is responsible for the global Conversational AI strategy of this European-based financial services giant. As a former bank executive (Chief Digital Officer, Chief Transformation Officer), I always enjoy sitting down with current executives
It's time for another podcast interview with an industry giant: This time I'm meeting Darren Ford, the founder and director of The CAI Company. Those of you who came to the Conversational AI Mini Summit last month may remember meeting Darren during the event – I was
I've been mixing with a lot of senior executives in the financial services industry recently and I have been doing a lot of discussion around AI. I'm an external faculty member at the London Institute of Banking and Finance, focusing on digital banking, digital transformation, FinTech,
That's the question I got this week from a despondent Chief Retail Officer talking about their bank's deployment of a Conversational AI solution. "Oh, that doesn't sound too promising?" I said, encouraging the executive to say some more. A pained look swept
This one popped up on my radar today and I thought it was worthwhile noting. Indeed, I thought the description might be referring to my previous post about Sierra AI – but then I saw the 'East Coast' reference and I'm pretty confident that Sierra is located
I've been watching Sierra AI now and again to see how things have been going and goodness me, it's getting exciting. The story for me begins with this TechCrunch piece ("No one seemed to see Bret Taylor stepping away from Salesforce"). Then it was
I am working with multiple banks helping them with their Conversational AI strategies at the moment. Every firm I'm supporting is frustrated by the vendors they've been interacting with, to some degree. They're not getting answers to their questions online. Many are carefully avoiding
I've been fascinated with the concept of the Nothing (phone) ever since the firm launched their devices and I've been following them ever since. A recent video I came across on LinkedIn and then on TikTok features the company's founder discussing his vision of
I recently sat down with the fabulous Ellen Keenan-O'Malley from the law firm EIP to record a podcast episode with her on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and Conversational AI. Ellen is a commercial IP solicitor specialising in intellectual property, new and emerging technology, AI, cyber and data