Podcast highlights: 05:58 Why are chatbots becoming popular? What problem are they solving? 12:57 Can an AI powered chat bot do presale heavy lifting for a human operator? 15:52 What is the future prospect of growth for a company building chatbots? Can you build on the relationship witha bank or insurance provider for example and introduce new AI-powered services Podcast notes: 00:06 Welcome Bianca Ho hosted by Graham Brown 01:00 Bianca’s introduction to the world of AI 04:18 What is the core offering at Clare.ai? 05:58 Why are chatbots becoming popular? What problem are they solving? 09:00 Is automation better than outsourcing? 12:57 Can an AI powered chat bot do presale heavy lifting for a human operator? 15:52 What is the future prospect of growth for a company building chatbots? Can you build on the relationship witha bank or insurance provider for example and introduce new AI-powered services 20:37 How do Bianca’s previous career choices complement clare.ai? 23:47 What skills are there in Bianca’s recipe to be a successful entrepreneur? 26:25 How did clare.ai come into Bianca’s trajectory? 29:59 How did Bianca pitch her requirements to commence a new startup? 32:46 How does Bianca see herself as the front-facing aspect of the startup? 35:30 What one choice would Bianca make to sell a product or service? 38:41 What does it take to step into the client’s shoes and build relationships? 40:57 Going out of comfort zone to find new insights 46:09 How does Bianca scale herself to live up to the challenges of the business? Bianca Ho is helping redefine the banking and insurance sector by building chatbot platforms. Clare.AI’s artificial intelligence powered chatbot does the heavy lifting for clients when it comes to interacting with large numbers of customers. Chatbots can not only warm up and prequalify prospective leads but also implement best practises that deliver a better customer experience.

Asia Tech Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Show

161: Bianca Ho – Co-Founder Clare.AI

Podcast highlights:05:58 Why are chatbots becoming popular? What problem are they solving?12:57 Can an AI powered chat bot do presale heavy lifting for a human operator?15:52 What is the future prospect of growth for a company building chatbots? Can you build on the relationship witha bank or insurance provider for example and introduce new AI-powered servicesPodcast notes:00:06 Welcome Bianca Ho hosted by Graham Brown01:00 Bianca’s introduction to the world of AI04:18 What is the core offering at Clare.ai?05:58 Why are chatbots becoming popular? What problem are they solving?09:00 Is automation better than outsourcing?12:57 Can an AI powered chat bot do presale heavy lifting for a human operator?15:52 What is the future prospect of growth for a company building chatbots? Can you build on the relationship witha bank or insurance provider for example and introduce new AI-powered services20:37 How do Bianca’s previous career choices complement clare.ai?23:47 What skills are there in Bianca’s recipe to be a successful entrepreneur?26:25 How did clare.ai come into Bianca’s trajectory?29:59 How did Bianca pitch her requirements to commence a new startup?32:46 How does Bianca see herself as the front-facing aspect of the startup?35:30 What one choice would Bianca make to sell a product or service?38:41 What does it take to step into the client’s shoes and build relationships?40:57 Going out of comfort zone to find new insights46:09 How does Bianca scale herself to live up to the challenges of the business? Bianca Ho is helping redefine the banking and insurance sector by building chatbot platforms. Clare.AI’s artificial intelligence powered chatbot does the heavy lifting for clients when it comes to interacting with large numbers of customers. Chatbots can not only warm up and prequalify prospective leads but also implement best practises that deliver a better customer experience.

Podcast highlights: What is Artificial Intelligence and what is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? What are the challenges and frustrations that AI could fix for a coder or developer? Can you write code that eventually writes itself with AGI? Podcast notes: Joining Asia Tech Podcast AI today is Frederique Mittelstaedt, the founder of Automorph - a platform that aims to bring the problem solving skills of Artificial General Intelligence to the wider public. Automorph is a program that can write programs (sound a little meta?) Well, this could be the future of any app development or SaaS startup. Fred has already pioneered his own AGI programming language along with well thought out ideas about what constitutes intelligence as well as what makes many of those "fuzzy" skills that we love about being human (like creativity, art and music) something that we could ultimately teach machines.

147: ATP AI: Frederique Mittelstaedt – Founder Automorph, pioneer of Artificial General Intelligence

Podcast highlights:What is Artificial Intelligence and what is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)?What are the challenges and frustrations that AI could fix for a coder or developer?Can you write code that eventually writes itself with AGI?Podcast notes: Joining Asia Tech Podcast AI today is Frederique Mittelstaedt, the founder of Automorph - a platform that aims to bring the problem solving skills of Artificial General Intelligence to the wider public. Automorph is a program that can write programs (sound a little meta?) Well, this could be the future of any app development or SaaS startup. Fred has already pioneered his own AGI programming language along with well thought out ideas about what constitutes intelligence as well as what makes many of those "fuzzy" skills that we love about being human (like creativity, art and music) something that we could ultimately teach machines.

Podcast highlights: How can we use AI to power prediction? Prediction is an extremely valuable skill but it's also very fuzzy. How do you quantify and code a skill that may involve thousands or millions of fuzzy algorithms? How can you apply AI powered prediction modelling to world events or market movements? Podcast notes: We place too much faith in experts, especially when it come to predicting the future. Experts, of course, failed to predict key world events like the Trump election, Brexit and so on. Justin Wang wants to change that. Scry is an AI powered startup that helps predictors connect with people who want the predictions. There's a whole market out there for these services. Traders can make billions by being right only 51% of the time. Businesses can lose billions by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Scry is a bold attempt at helping us all be on the right side of the future.

143: ATP AI: Justin Wang – Using AI to Predict the Future with Scry

Podcast highlights:How can we use AI to power prediction?Prediction is an extremely valuable skill but it's also very fuzzy. How do you quantify and code a skill that may involve thousands or millions of fuzzy algorithms?How can you apply AI powered prediction modelling to world events or market movements?Podcast notes: We place too much faith in experts, especially when it come to predicting the future. Experts, of course, failed to predict key world events like the Trump election, Brexit and so on. Justin Wang wants to change that. Scry is an AI powered startup that helps predictors connect with people who want the predictions. There's a whole market out there for these services. Traders can make billions by being right only 51% of the time. Businesses can lose billions by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Scry is a bold attempt at helping us all be on the right side of the future.

Podcast highlights: What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur and what kind of entrepreneurial teams do accelerators like Zeroth.ai look for in their batches? What are the less common applications of AI that don't necessarily grab the media headlines but are equally valuable (e.g. agriculture, training)? Why does Asia need an AI focused accelerator to help startups? Podcast notes: Tak Lo is the founder of Zeroth.ai - the Artificial Intelligence accelerator based in Hong Kong. In this interview we covered the “why” questions - why do we need AI-specific accelerator programs for startups? why did Tak get into this space in the first space? why is Tak the right person to mentor and lead a new generation of Artificial Intelligence startup founders in Asia?

128: Tak Lo – Building Asia’s First Artificial Intelligence Accelerator

Podcast highlights:What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur and what kind of entrepreneurial teams do accelerators like Zeroth.ai look for in their batches?What are the less common applications of AI that don't necessarily grab the media headlines but are equally valuable (e.g. agriculture, training)?Why does Asia need an AI focused accelerator to help startups?Podcast notes: Tak Lo is the founder of Zeroth.ai - the Artificial Intelligence accelerator based in Hong Kong. In this interview we covered the “why” questions - why do we need AI-specific accelerator programs for startups? why did Tak get into this space in the first space? why is Tak the right person to mentor and lead a new generation of Artificial Intelligence startup founders in Asia?

Podcast highlights: How do AI powered scheduling assistants like Evie work? Do people become emotionally attached to artificially intelligent agents? Is that anthropomorphism or is it a genuine sign of intelligence? What future opportunities can a scheduling assistant provide for its developer? Now that you have mastered a narrow-band remit of commands and outputs where could you take that domain knowledge to? Podcast notes: If you ever ask my next guest Are you free to catch up Next Wednesday?  You may find his Personal Assistant EVIE step in and arrange that schedule with you. What you may not know is that EVIE isn’t a real person but an AI Personal Assistant, and it’s pretty impressive too… I’m an AI graduate so I’m pretty aware of most AI-looking things from chatbots to the Turing Test… but the first time I interacted with Evie, I thought she was a real person, it was that good… So, to lift the lid on the life of his assistant, I’m joined today in the ATP Stories studio by Praveen Velu, Co-Founder of Evie.AI to talk about AI and what he’s learned building an AI startup in Singapore.

078: Praveen Velu – CEO of AI Powered Assistant EVIE

Podcast highlights:How do AI powered scheduling assistants like Evie work?Do people become emotionally attached to artificially intelligent agents? Is that anthropomorphism or is it a genuine sign of intelligence?What future opportunities can a scheduling assistant provide for its developer? Now that you have mastered a narrow-band remit of commands and outputs where could you take that domain knowledge to?Podcast notes: If you ever ask my next guest Are you free to catch up Next Wednesday?  You may find his Personal Assistant EVIE step in and arrange that schedule with you. What you may not know is that EVIE isn’t a real person but an AI Personal Assistant, and it’s pretty impressive too… I’m an AI graduate so I’m pretty aware of most AI-looking things from chatbots to the Turing Test… but the first time I interacted with Evie, I thought she was a real person, it was that good… So, to lift the lid on the life of his assistant, I’m joined today in the ATP Stories studio by Praveen Velu, Co-Founder of Evie.AI to talk about AI and what he’s learned building an AI startup in Singapore.

Podcast covering the latest trends in AI, machine intelligence and deep learning by Graham D Brown