In my quest to find reasonable AI's I've been researching how data scientists and engineers compensate for all the failings of The Illusion of Thinking (Shojaee et al) machines:

• Logic -- helping me simply the growing tangle of redundant slop in my open source projects
• Arithmetic -- counting errors and doing statistics …

Social-sector organizations are turning to chatbots to meet their goals for learning initiatives. It’s challenging, though, to attract users to educational content. Think about how you might feel if you click on a link and get a 50-page document in a new browser tab. Like most users, you might …

This is Part 2 in the post series about improving your chatbot by analyzing user messages. (You can read Part 1 here)

Social impact organizations need to pay attention to what users say when communicating with their chatbot. Users often communicate with natural language responses, also known as “free-text” or …

Interest in and use of chatbots continue to grow among nonprofit organizations as they allow for providing services to and educating constituents at scale in an interactive, engaging way. But once you launch your chatbot and let it interact with users, you will notice that one of its most frequent …

Nonprofit chatbots are moving into the mainstream as organizations are looking for ways to stay connected to constituents and donors, recruiting more people for the cause, and looking for better ways to live out their unique missions in the world. As your nonprofit considers launching your own chatbot, one of …

Data Science students are always looking for new and interesting datasets to train machine learning models. There's tons of public data out there. Unfortunately, in the US, many of our "public" datasets are difficult to access. The most interesting data is hidden behind dark patterns on corporate and government websites …

If you want to have more brain cycles for fun, creative stuff, you can automate the boring stuff.
Though you can't really call it a "cognitive assistant", it will definitely help you think better.
Automating the boring stuff was the secret to the rise of powerhouse startups like GitHub, GitLab …

Making an intelligent chatbot has never been easier, thanks to the abundance of open source natural language processing libraries, curated datasets and the power of transfer learning. Building a basic question-answering functionality with Transformers library can be as simple as this:

Input 1: Load Pretrained Transformer QA Model

from transformers …

We not only help international organizations to start using machine intelligence, we also help new developers and Data Scientists get their start.
Here are our favorite tutorials and resources to help you get started if you're new to Python or data science.

If you like working on some of these …

Artificial intelligence-powered chatbots have become ubiquitous in today’s world. Increasingly, more non-profit organizations are creating chatbots for different purposes. AI-powered chatbots help fundraising efforts, help assist with education, and provide an artificial support staff that is available around the clock. One of the biggest benefits that non-profits see is …