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Finding the right metrics for evaluating your bot
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2018 23:33
GUEST: Here’s the good news for companies building AI-powered virtual agents (aka bots) for customer service: Research from Accenture suggests that 80 percent of support chats or calls can be resolved by bots that have...
VR's missing ingredient: FOMO
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2018 21:10
GUEST: In over two years as CEO of Admix, an AR/VR company, I have attended well over 100 events, pitched investors, and given countless interviews. By far the most common question I get is “What does VR need to get to...
VCs await regulatory clarity on Opportunity Zones, the latest tactic to draw capital to the Heartland
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2018 19:25
It’s an oft-cited statistic that 75 percent of venture capital money in the U.S. goes to just three states: New York, California, and Massachusetts — and has for years. If it’s going to take years to close that gap...
How Smart Brain Aging hopes to hold off dementia with brain training games
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2018 17:45
My 85-year-old mother has dementia, a memory loss disease that affects about 60 million people in the U.S. And so I can relate to the challenges of fighting the disease that John DenBoer has dedicated his life to fightin...
Mario Kart VR will soon toss turtle shells in North America
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2018 12:34
Your next visit to the seat of democracy in the United States could include a side-journey into another universe where tossing banana peels and turtle shells is the surest way to separate the winners from losers, as Band...
Battlefield V open beta results: DICE will scale back supply stations, improve vision
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2018 00:40
Electronic Arts’ DICE studio said that Battlefield V’s open beta test drew players who poured tens of millions of hours into the game. The open beta ran from September 4 to September 11, with a focus on online play i...
Wovenware is making AI to track disease-carrying mosquitoes in Puerto Rico
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2018 00:37
It’s been roughly a year since Hurricane Maria — the tenth-most intense Atlantic hurricane on record — devastated the island of Puerto Rico. The storm killed more than 2,900 people, left millions of homes and busin...