Raj Singh, founder of GoMoment, describes Ivy, a text-message hotel concierge chatbot serving some 20 million guests that automates FAQ answers and routes requests to staff. He argues current AI succeeds at narrow domain tasks, cites expert forecasts placing general intelligence around 2040, and compares AI to electricity as a general-purpose technology.
This summary was generated with the help of AI from the talk's transcript. Corrections welcome.
More from BIL 2018 Los Angeles
- A Weighty Matter — William Volk ▶ video
- Crappy Computers — Michael Gat ▶ video
- Dreaming: The Fundamentals of Keeping a Practice, and Why — Jason Levit ▶ video
- Evolving Immersive Experiences — Brent Bushnell ▶ video
More on AI & Computing
- 3DCanada: The Story So Far — John Biehler
- Artificial Intelligence and the Future — Julia Bossmann
- Autonomous Cars and the Coming Transportation Cloud — Rahul Sonand
- Biosensors and You! — Jean Rintoul