Talkabot ATX November
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Hello Austin bot developers, enthusiasts, and tinkerers!
The fine folks from Condé Nast have invited us for an evening of thoughtful bot-filled presentations and networking at their brand new offices on East 6th Street (https://www.google.com/maps/place/1645+E+6th+St+%23250,+Austin,+TX+78702/@30.2621227,-97.7273598,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8644b5b6d31922d1:0xdd5e1600dda0c826!8m2!3d30.2621227!4d-97.7251711). Please show up on time, because this month's programming is stacked...and not to miss!
There will be time for Q&A after these presentations. We ask that you please limit yourself to one question, so we have time to hear from as many different people as possible.
Last but not least, please be respectful to our hosts and presenters. They are kindly offering their time and resources for us, so let's repay them with our courtesy!
Any questions? Contact us through this Meetup page or email info@talkabot.ai .
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This month's schedule:
6:00 pm - Drinks and snacks courtesy of our sponsors
6:20 pm - Welcome message and community intros
6:30 pm - Agata Dooreck Front-End AI Developer
The Importance of Empathetic AI Design
This will be a session focusing on how to best incorporate empathy into the design of B2C and B2B chatbots.
Key concepts covered:
• Intro to HRI (a bit of History, ie. iRobot etc.)
• Why does empathy in chatbots matter?
• Key developments in HRI-related fields over the past decade
• How HRI applies to Chatbots
• Overview of empathetic AI design process
• Overview of tools
• Best practices
6:55 pm - Bryon Jacob - CTO and Co-founder at Data.World
Data & Bots
Bots are a great way to automate tasks and streamline communications with human actors. Building bots can involve using a lot of different types of data and techniques - from machine learning to build models of behavior, natural language processing to extract meaning from free-form text, to building data-driven bots with flexible models and interactions. In this talk, Bryon Jacob will talk about data.world, a network for discovering and collaborating on data, and how platforms like data.world can help with your next bot project.
7:25 pm - Mark Phillip CEO and Founder at Are You Watching This?!
Bots in the Dark Ages
Mark will be talking about RUWT?!'s sports-aware bot built in 2007, and how the strategies, challenges, intelligence, and personality has evolved (and hasn't evolved) over the years.
7:55pm - Post-meetup hangs at Lazarus Brewing (1902 E. 6th St)
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Many thanks to the groups who make Talkabot possible!
Our great sponsor Cisco Spark - https://ciscospark.com/
Our most excellent hosts Condé Nast - http://condenast.com/austin/ (http://www.condenast.com/austin/)
And our community sponsors:
Howdy - http://howdy.ai/
Voxable - http://voxable.io/