WANT THE BEST APPLIED AI NEWS?
WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED
Get High-Quality, Curated AI & ML News
Artificial intelligence is the overhyped topic of the day. Media outlets and personal blogs are awash with content – some good, most not-so-good. We sift through all the top tech and business news sources daily so you don’t have to. Get only curated news and original thinking about applied AI and machine learning for enterprises from experienced writers and reliable industry experts.
Original Content
TOPBOTS writers are experts in enterprise AI applications, ranging from technology to marketing to operations. We offer original content based on industry news, academic research, domain expert opinions, internal projects, case studies, and trending data to help your business or brand succeed with applied data science and machine learning.
Evaluation Metrics For Dialog Systems
Evaluation is a crucial part of the dialog system development process. Human judgment is considered a gold standard for the evaluation of dialog agents. However, this is also a very expensive and time-intensive approach. Thus, researchers mostly rely on automatic metrics when developing dialog systems. In this article, we’ll introduce a brief overview of the…
Key Dialog Datasets: Overview and Critique
To build a state-of-the-art dialog system, you need challenging tasks for model training and evaluation. There are numerous dialog datasets that assist researchers in building task-oriented and chit-chat dialog agents. In particular, the Facebook Research team has introduced a framework, called ParlAI (pronounced par-lay), where they’ve gathered together 80+ popular dialog datasets. We have reviewed…
Task-Oriented Dialog Agents: Recent Advances and Challenges
Hotel bookings, weather queries, restaurant reservations – chatbots and virtual assistants seem to be the perfect solution for these kinds of routine inquiries. Not surprisingly, task-oriented dialog systems that support these chatbots have become a hot topic in the AI and NLP research community. In this article, we will review the recent research breakthroughs in…
The Latest Breakthroughs in Conversational AI Agents
2020 is the breakthrough year for conversational agents. First, Google’s chatbot Meena and Facebook’s chatbot Blender demonstrated that dialog agents can achieve close to human-level performance in certain tasks. Then, OpenAI’s GPT-3 model made lots of people wonder whether Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is already here. While we are still a long way off true…
ECCV 2020: Some Highlights
The 2020 European Conference on Computer Vision took place online, from 23 to 28 August, and consisted of 1360 papers, divided into 104 orals, 160 spotlights and the rest of 1096 papers as posters. In addition to 45 workshops and 16 tutorials. As it is the case in recent years with ML and CV conferences,…
The Essential Landscape of Enterprise AI Companies (2020)
By our definition, “enterprise” technology companies create tools for workplace roles and functions that a large number of businesses use. Plenty of enterprise companies use combinations of automated data science, machine learning, and modern deep learning approaches for tasks like data preparation, predictive analytics, and process automation. Many are well-established players with deep domain expertise…
Start Reading The Best A.I. & Bot News
Got Content For Our Newsletter?
Got an article you’d like to feature in our newsletter? If the piece is well-researched and educational, go ahead and submit the link below. Be aware that we don’t accept blatantly promotional content or articles with factual mistakes or misleading headlines.