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also thanks to digits with one for having me it's another to um be able
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to present here what we do in the area of artificial intelligence at cisco
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so my plan for this talk is to tell you first of all
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why does come is interested in artificial intelligence um i guess
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it's not that kind of thing you'd expect from um
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classical togo company um second how um
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um what is our procedure for for bringing artificial intelligence or customers
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and the third um name some examples of products that we've there we are
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developing and that we've developed um recently that to use artificial intelligence
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so let's get started
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it's
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so just ionisation it's um one of the things that
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i think power is um artificial intelligence and it's
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nothing you know it started probably with the uh
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first microchips and has seen a really
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huge progress since then so there was the first wave when the smart phones
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arrive which um brought a huge change
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there is a currently um where at the top of
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the um coyote and rejoice asian waves so
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um it's very easy to have computing
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resources um they're very very cheap
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very easy to set up in the cloud and so on
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and um we're right at the beginning of the
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third wave which is the artificial intelligence wave
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uh which means that machines will be learning and make or
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are already starting to learn and make attachments decisions
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um am i think huge quantities of data that
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um previously was impossible to dig into
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um and i guess there also be a
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lot of robotics breakthroughs um and other
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areas and we don't know yet what the fourth we will be but we are very excited find out
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'kay so digits lies they shouldn't and all these
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waves have changed a lot about our business
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so one of the things that has come made a lot of money one on where
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um or were text messages and this is
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something that has disappeared practically overnight
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so companies like what tap um are i don't know
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any other of your favourite messaging apps have
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taken over and no one uses s. m. s. anymore or at least very few people
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no everything is turning into software softer is eating the world
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and some famous people agree with this among which market reason maybe you've heard of him
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um so says come has the ambition to follow
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this um this trend and um of
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course it's also kind of necessary in order to to stay alive as a company
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buses commons turning from a classical togo company into um um softer company
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um and i guess this starts to give a first explanation of why we're interested in a i
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oh here i'm showing um and events that is organised basis come and maybe some of you
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know 'cause it's um become relatively begins with concerts comes after a happen last month
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along with business also customer um behaviour changes so people expect
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different things from us than they did before higher expectations
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for example um like i said the advent of smart
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phones and um orgy networks and so i'm made
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uh the mobile that data volume increase dramatically
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um people are watching lots of video even him on there
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are mostly on their smart phones um people are using
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catchup t. v. so no longer live t. v. but
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um recording functions and net flicks and so on
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and very very few people um are using the
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still the fixed a phone network so
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again another very clear signal that we need to change and we believe a i
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the change that we need to incorporate and here we uh
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i highly agree with a ah it's apples video
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game cock was set that a. i has to be horizontal so we need to put a i into
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basically everything that we built because people expect software to
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behave intelligently you can no longer build a
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that i'm stupid product and get away with it and this brings us also to our
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core belief in the um yeah in machine learning robots was gone which is
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um that in the future our product will be stupid without a high
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and therefore worthless so we obviously we can tell the right so hopefully
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this gives a good motivation of y. says compares about a i
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and now let me tell you how we plan to bring a i to our customers so
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maybe just as a side remark i i'm in the
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enterprise customer um departments are talking about um
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other companies not not private customers alright so um
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what we do is build digital enterprise solution
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and we have lots of resources already to build on um
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there are so this department the different resolutions consist
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of seven hundred specialist employees we're building um
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enable or as we call them some sort of basic softer building blocks that week and then
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put together based on customer needs we have um
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an advantage citation change h. m. m.
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tell you about more in the next slide we have tools um
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and we are used to working in um in um
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in a pretty high temple so really fast really i doubt that's on
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oh here is our unique selling proposition at the digital and resolutions um first of all
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over time we have been able to build and ten
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competence that means we have infrastructure we're able to
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a store and process data out both firms is
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coming from our other business customers we um
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um we're competent in software development in different platforms and so on
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and what enabled us to do this was our a very comprehensive
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three hundred sixty degrees portfolio including both standard based solutions
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those things that i don't know product stuff to products from other
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companies that we provide consultants for um but also customisable
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so where we talk to the customary find out they have a problem
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it cannot be solved by the standardised solution so we need to
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um sit together and build something as specifically for that customer
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and finally all of this would so certainly not be successful
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without um i tried methodology and we have this as
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well most importantly um we believe in the co creation
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process so like i said we we sit together
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or with our customers with around and fries customers and we find out what problems they have in order to
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to find the best solution for them instead of just
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selling um at the standard thing that we have
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and this is um also uh i guess a
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key component in a human centre design philosophy
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uh where you try to find out what users want and
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um uh how to best um fill their needs
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we also work according to agile methodology i guess everyone does today so is it even worth mentioning but anyway
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um so we plan to you um integrate a i into this
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whole um overview that we already have in dealing with customers
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and hope that will be successful and it doesn't look so you'll see when i present the product
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right the first of all what exactly do we understand with a high
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and i start with an example from the moment they're born into this
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world children start learning things about it for example a here
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a chocolate what is struck what hoping that the kids but their hands in a day this married on their face they
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tasted and so on to the the experience directly with all their senses then finally they learn what chocolate is
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and a i is is very similar in the sense that um
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it enables machines to gradually learn things about the world
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that we humans know so this is them a more generic definition of a i
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of course there are also um i think nowadays mostly uh use cases of
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right now our artificial intelligence where you have a very specific use case let's say uh you
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write an email and you write a time in dayton there um and the the
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program is able to extract isn't put in a calendar
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is already an example of narrow artificial intelligence
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but artificial intelligence is an umbrella term and is just means that computers act
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intelligently similar to how we humans i'm
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acting different situations and it includes
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um various either um feel it's
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like um expert systems
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so these are i guess in the seventies and eighties what the the
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state of the art um of artificial intelligence at that time where
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um experts were writing rules for computers to behave in a certain way based on their knowledge
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um obviously the more a recent um
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important area artificial intelligence is machine learning and
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particularly deep learning where computers can um
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become intelligent through statistics on large quantities of data
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and
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oh this has uh in order to to do something like this
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and i uh lots of things are needed and they're
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different areas in which you can apply it
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there's first of all perceptions so obviously a a i.
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systems must interact with humans so we they
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need to be able to um perceive festival speech
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vision and so on there is um
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natural language processing so just because they and they are able to perceive the speech
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doesn't mean they understand what the person saying says what natural language processing dies
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um there's reasoning there's planning and of course that somewhere up there's there there's alter products
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and machine learning which i view as a subset of artificial intelligence is also
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huge so in order to achieve all these things that i've shown here
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there are lots of different methods there's um unsupervised learning there's
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um supervised learning semi supervised learning neural
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networks um him support vector machines
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clustering and so on there's also reinforcement learning a bit it's
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um let's related to the rest of the the the tools that
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we have at our disposal in terms of methods that say
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but either ingredients are just as important so first of all
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processing power is very very important
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data obviously because computers learn from data as
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i've said we statistical methods and algorithms
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so i think there is my why a eyes seeing such a huge a surgeon
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in popularity is because in all of these area there has been tremendous
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uh progress and i'm past couple of years
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so you pressing power already a bit longer than that we've we've um
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um for quite awhile gone from computers looking like this to having um
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to having a enormous computational power in our pockets or in our briefcases
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um data as i've said uh with a smart phones getting popular
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the amount of data generated by people has also increased exponentially
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and finally algorithms so i guess where the the latest thing greedy and just to
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um become due to arrive into a very advanced state
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um there's tons of low that you also hear about i guess after the stock
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um microsoft is also opening um various of their
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a. i. algorithms to the public face but
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the same i was recently heard about by to a releasing
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something in the area so there's lots going on
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and this means that people like us we're we're as i
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said we're a softer slash local company we we
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don't have the ambition to compete with will or face
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bookends one but me i'm a wants to
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to uh um enable our customers to benefit
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from um from all these things
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as soon as possible and to do so in a way that suits them best
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obviously there is a there are also lots of misconceptions with all the hype surrounding yeah
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i so um machine learning is expensive it's a real time activity everything can be
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done with with people earning these are all the kinds of things that we have to
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sort of fight against um when we start working with people on a i
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is the expectations are sometimes quite um misaligned with reality
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and so let me show you some examples of what we do
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some products that we've built um in the recent future in the
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recent past sorry or that we're building at the moment
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our products are based loosely on this um framework
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that i'm showing here so we have um
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obviously have data you have lots of data from system itself
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we can uh also take advantage of of public data
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at that anyone's disposal and we may may also get customer data
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depending on the customer um we have a perception liar
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where um first of all um there is speech text um then there's
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perception in the sense of compute of of the teaching computer is what the
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data represents and what they should do with it so we have a
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um model training um component
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and then finally we have a bunch of micro services um in the
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area of natural language i think an understanding for the moment um
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uh but extending to other areas as well so we have named entity recognition topic
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recognition sentiment analysis summarisation a trend detection and
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so on and so we um
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have the services uh as part of an a. p. i. and the goal is to use this tape yeah
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in order to build you their room highly customised solutions
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are really sitting down with the customers and
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i'm finding out what they want and building it for that we also
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have sort of a more standardised set of products where we
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uh that we use for example to showcase the different micro services
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so for example this customer feedback is something that everyone is interested in
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and um we do have a a product where we gather
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um data for example first this come from social media
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and analysts it by using these uh different services
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and finally we also have um the the plan
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of integrating with either a a softer products
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that can highly benefit from from artificial intelligence example service now um
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which is the customer desk software a. c. p. sales force
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and so on and you'll see an moment why i think these
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are appropriate um standards after products to be looking at
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so our first um
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interesting book um product that we've still using using or artificial
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intelligence it's them is the customer desk um product
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it helps service agents give faster and better service and how does
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it do this by using a i obviously called mom all
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and we um provide basically
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realtime recommendations um
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of solutions to the service agents to solve the customer's problem
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well basically the agents um and has a custom on the phone
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that explains the problem um the agent right sin incident ticket
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and that in the background um our artificial intelligence service is looking
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for is similar to get that is already been sought
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and or for several similar tickets let's say and presents um
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a list of um candidate solutions to the agent
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and the agent can and uh choose the best solution for the particular case and in this way solve
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the problem a lot faster than if they had to go and look through this manually um
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either well the customers on the phone which would i guess would be quite um anoint
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for the customer or at a later time and then get back to the custom
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oh this is what the um the interface looks like him in this this
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has been integrated in this or is this after of space gone
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basically it's the this is the part where we we enter the
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to the new ticket and this is where the magic happens
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so showing a plastic it's with pro with solutions and highlighting what
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um the main topic of this the current ticket is
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and um there's also functionality that um looks
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at the various incidents coming and and
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notifies if there is something that looks like a major incidents so it's a lot
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of people calling within a very short period of time about exactly the
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same thing this means it's probably um the underlying causes probably similar and it's
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the major incident to look at um at at all the incidence together
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though this um oh is something like a site that
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has been integrated into our hours just come
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service desk a softer but it's definitely a reasonable
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and and probably advantageous to integrated also in
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in other service tax stuff for like service now there's mentioning previous
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the second product that it developed is i'm also not
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and in this product our goal is to use artificial intelligence for customer experience
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and also to to showcase our various micro services
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so
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the question or this the problem that this product solves is
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um i think customer feedback or uh providing an analysis of customer beat
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feedback to the right people in order to improve customer experience
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and i guess here you have a screen shot of an earlier version of the project of the product
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it's basically a product where we um it with some of the
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the two biggest functionalities are sentiment analysis where we look
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at at a piece of feedback and say is this negative feedback with this positive feedback and obviously this of
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it's a very a um and sought after functionality in
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in terms of customer feedback or reviews in general
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and the second sat functionality is being able
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to recognise in the customer feedback entities
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uh named entity recognition searches um names of people this
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might be the customer already age and that they
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talk to if they are uh referring to a customer interaction um it might be an address
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or a and r. o. another company a phone number or a date anything
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um and this helps pack the um the the feedbacks
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um according to what they're about and then
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providing an overview of a set of feedbacks through these um keywords that we extract
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it's also useful when um when we went to a sort of
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democracy tight feedback and to provide access to customer feedback
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to everyone at the company which is what we've done and says come with this product in that case um
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what needs to be then is uh in order to comply
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with data protection laws is an amazing customer information so
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so we also do this wasn't with named entity recognition so in order for
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for every employee of says come to be able to look at
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customer feedback and internalise it and find out what they yeah at their
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individual level can do better in order to improve the customer experience
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we need to make this data anonymous we cannot go around and and um
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mm open it's a incident tickets from the hotline to everyone
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oh this is worked out pretty well i'm in the the
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product has been quite successful instead of says come
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and now the plan is widths sonar to make
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it more widely available and perhaps um also
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tell it to other companies that might be interested in that is what it looks like
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we can select language um obviously we're very
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interested to have um great performance on
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swiss languages a german french italian maybe not amend it actually they are
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um so for this uh which it is something that we're still working on gathering data for this
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languages and i'm coming up with trained models that
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work best on this particular case um
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i'm back to sonar we can filter um according to sentiment
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um we can filter according to the data source so
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um we're using for example peter and face book from social meet yeah but we also have internal sources
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like i said the hotline is one example but we could also
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think of uh for example um online online chat um
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software that step we have one that's just come website where you can go into live with an agent
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and then down here you see sort of summaries of what's the the
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feedback um i says in the time frame that you selected
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and then there is another visualisation is based on the analysis that we're doing
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we also have topics again based on the time frame that we select you can extract
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um a different topics the the most important
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topics that the feedbacks um are mentioning
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and finally is see the uh actual raw data as though the feedbacks of the people
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and you can go all look more into that if that's what you're interested in
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though this um sums up the products that that we have so far
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um for the future so we have customer experiences we have customer support
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we we have a um a product in progress for human
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resources where you we can an allies um employee surveys
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and and come up with summaries a lot faster than than the current
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uh way of doing it manually um we have a um
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product planned for uh the legal domain um as
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a a big company as a big service
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company they're obviously lots of contracts with other
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companies and very often this number is
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so high that it's very uh tedious to to an lies to conduct manually and have a good
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overview of this so this again one very good use case artificial intelligence and so on
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and just to finalise i would like to say i'm
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against his come we're uh we're uh an
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former tell co oh it turning into a service company so we're not starting
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bad big with artificial intelligence but on the other hand everyone started small
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well all of these big sed a big currently very big companies have started i'm

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Rosie: clean use case framework
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PERFMATTERS for Android
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