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Elise Keith of Lucid Meetings discusses the state of technology and meetings Produced and Written by Elise Keith for Nerd Stalker “My goal is to make sure no one ever has to write meeting notes again.” I’m talking with a product manager working to perfect automated call transcription. If find idea both exciting and problematic. The Dream Fully automated transcription is just the first step towards a grander vision. As an AI enthusiast told me, “Notes are just the start. Consider - what if AI could make sure the meeting goes well in the first place? What if an AI agent kept the discussion on track? What if it knew how to help a group resolve a conflict? That day may not be too far off.” He’s painting a vision of a comprehensive augmented meeting intelligence agent. As Ben Dickinson explains : “Augmented intelligence (AI)… is a complement—not a replacement—to human intelligence. It's about helping humans become faster and smarter at the tasks they...

Barry Cousins of Info-Tech Research Group Looks At Fact Checking and AI By Barry Cousins As an analyst, I’d like to have a universal fact checker. Something like the carbon monoxide detectors on each level of my home. Something that would sound an alarm when there’s danger of intellectual asphyxiation from choking on the baloney put forward by certain sales people, news organizations, governments, and educators, for example. For most of my life, we would simply have turned to academic literature for credible truth.  There is now enough legitimate doubt to make us seek out a new model or at a minimum, augment that academic model. I don’t want to be misunderstood: I’m not suggesting that all news and education is phony baloney. And I’m not suggesting that the people speaking untruths are always doing so intentionally. The fact is, we don’t have anything close to a recognizable database of facts from which we can base such analysis. For most of us, this was ...

Charese Embree of Fynd.me Discusses Their Latest Service Feature - FyndBot Fynd.me Facebook Messenger Bot (courtesy of Fynd.me) Bots for Facebook Messenger have taken off like wildfire since announced this spring. Today, Fynd.me launches their AI fashion concierge on Facebook Messenger for both Mens and Womens clothing. We get an update from Charese Embree, co-founder of Fynd.me  on their Messenger bot for fashion - Fyndbot. Brilliant move since they didn't have to create another mobile app for their service. Checkout our interview with Charese below.

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ORA.TV Broadcasts Stephen Hawking on Larry King Now Show Shot of Stephen Hawking on Larry King Now Courtesy of ORA.tv Stephen Hawking – one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers, and a man who rarely gives interviews – joins Larry on the Emmy nominated series “Larry King Now , live from the Starmus Festival, to discuss the greatest issues facing the planet, where artificial intelligence is headed and what he makes of Kurzweil’s singularity theory (man and machine to become one). Plus, astrophysicist Garik Israelian and creator of the Starmus Festival, talks about the festival which is this year dedicated to Hawking. ORA.tv is Larry Kings Internet TV channel launched in 2012 . Check it out below from ORA.tv .