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Microsoft Announces New Tools for Responsible AI

Microsoft | March 01, 2021

Microsoft Corporation has announced new capabilities in its responsible AI (RAI) toolkits to help data scientists reduce bias within their ML models. Last May at Microsoft Build, it launched 3 tools for the toolkit: InterpretML, Fairlearn, and SmartNoise.

SmartNoise is a collaborative effort by Microsoft and Harvard and is used to prevent personal data while allowing researchers to collect insights from that data using differential privacy. It now offers the ability to use synthetic data, which is a sample that is derived from the original dataset.

By combining the synthetic dataset with the original dataset, researchers can continue to analyse the same dataset without increasing privacy risk. The synthetic data capability will increase collaboration between research parties, democratized knowledge, and open dataset initiatives, the company explained.

Microsoft has also launched a new tool called Error Analysis. This tool enables data scientists to recognize the patterns in their errors, identify subgroups with higher inaccuracy, and visually analyse root causes of the errors.

According to Microsoft, Error Analysis can be used to dive deeper into questions such as:

Does the loan approval model perform similarly for population cohorts across ethnicity, gender, age, education? and

Will the self-driving car recognition model still perform well even when it is dark and snowing outside?

Error Analysis had already been in use within Microsoft. It started as a research project in 2018 as part of an alliance between the AI, Ethics, and Effects in Engineering and Research (AETHER) Committee and Microsoft Research.

Going forward, Microsoft plans to add Error Analysis and other RAI tools to a larger model assessment dashboard that is expected to be available in mid-2021 in OSS and Azure Machine Learning.

Sarah Bird, principal program manager at Microsoft; Mehrnoosh Sameki, senior program manager, at Microsoft and Besmira Nushi, principal researcher at Microsoft; wrote in a post, “The work doesn’t stop here. We continue to expand the capabilities in FairLearn, InterpretML, Error Analysis, and SmartNoise. We hope you’ll join us on GitHub and contribute directly to helping everyone build AI responsibly,”

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Introducing ManualGPT, a Conversational Customer Experience Solution from Touchcast

Touchcast | March 06, 2023

Touchcast has released a tool called ManualGPT that uses Microsoft Azure AI and GPT technology to make product manuals more like conversations. With this new method, businesses will be able to turn any guide to a product or service into a conversational, helpful resource for customers. ManualGPT can make it much easier for customers to find information about products or services. By enabling conversational interactions, businesses can enhance engagement and satisfaction with their brand. The goal is to make things easier for customers and give them information in any language without making them look through hundreds of pages. With ManualGPT, businesses can improve customer satisfaction by making product guides easier to understand and less likely to cause frustration. Additionally, the conversational experience of ManualGPT increases customer engagement and retention of information. Founder and CEO of Touchcast, Edo Segal, said, "We are thrilled to announce the launch of ManualGPT, which represents a major step forward in the way automotive companies can simplify their customer experience and make it easier and more intuitive." He also said, "Thanks to our collaboration with Microsoft, we've been able to re-imagine the entire customer journey inside the metaverse and combine a digital-first experience with the personal touch of a human concierge." He also stated, "By harnessing the power of GPT-3, combined with our proprietary semantic search engine, car companies can now equip consumers with the information they need, when they need it, and in any language, without requiring them to browse through hundreds of pages." (Source - PRNewswire) When combined with Touchcast's metaverse experience, customers of cars can meet a synthetic agent who has instant access to all vehicle information and can answer all of their questions at any point in their journey. This combination leads to a significant improvement in the overall customer experience. Customers can access necessary information easily, leading to reduced frustration and more satisfied customers. This integration also helps keep customers because it gives them a fun and interactive way to learn about a product. About Touchcast Touchcast is the leading enterprise metaverse company in the world. Without avatars, VR headsets, or specialized software, its Metaverse-as-a-Service platform makes it possible for any organization to offer powerful ways to communicate, work together, do business, and learn. Users can use Touchcast to create interactive and immersive videos. For video editing, the platform includes green screen effects, animations, and virtual sets. It allows you to add hotspots, polls, quizzes, and calls-to-action to your videos. It enhances communication in educational settings, corporate training, marketing, and entertainment. Users can use the platform to make and share personalized, interesting videos, which can make audiences more interested and keep them there longer. The company provides both free and paid plans that include advanced features. People use the platform a lot because it can be used on both desktop computers and mobile phones. Touchcast is a flexible video production and communication platform that lets users make engaging and interactive videos for a wide range of purposes. The company was established in 2010 and is based in New York.

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Intercom Unveils Fin, a Breakthrough GPT-4 AI-based Customer Service Bot

Intercom | March 15, 2023

On March, 14, 2023, Intercom, a customer communication and support solutions provider, has introduced Fin, a new AI-powered customer service bot. Fin, according to the company, is the market's only AI-powered, full-service customer support solution powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology and Intercom’s proprietary machine learning technology. Fin provides accurate and trustworthy responses to customer inquiries, saving time for both customers and support teams. Fin does not require initial setup or training, unlike most bots that require responses to be curated manually by a human, it can learn everything it needs from a company's existing support articles. The bot has built-in safeguards to improve accuracy and reduce the possibility of hallucinations, which are made-up or inaccurate content. It also avoids giving misleading answers or responding about off-brand topics. Fin can hold full support conversations with customers, comprehend complex queries, ask clarifying questions, and explain complex subjects clearly and in a human-like tone. If a query is too difficult for the bot to handle, it can disambiguate it and seamlessly forward it to human support agents. Intercom has been developing Fin with OpenAI's GPT-4 technology, building on the success of previous GPT releases. The company has seen significant improvements in accuracy, as well as a reduction in the number of hallucinations, and is now eager to begin testing Fin with customers to see how it performs in the real world. Fin is part of Intercom's commitment to bringing the most advanced AI and automation to customer service teams. GPT systems have already been used by the company across its platform, including recently released features in the Intercom Inbox and Articles products. These features, which first became available in January, are now available to all customers. Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Intercom, Des Traynor, said, "We built and launched great features for support agents using OpenAI's previous GPT-3.5 release and have been working on GPT-4 through early testing to develop a trustworthy, customer-facing support bot." He also said, "We've seen significant accuracy improvements with GPT-4 that reduced the so-called hallucinations and we're excited to now start testing Fin with customers and see how well it performs in the real world." (Source – CISION PR Newswire) Fin is expected to be available in beta soon, and customers interested in joining the waitlist can do so on Intercom's website. About Intercom Intercom is a customer service platform that allows businesses to provide fast support and personalized experiences to their customers. It is an AI-powered, automation-first platform used by over 25,000 global organizations, including Amazon and Microsoft, to send over 500 million messages per month and interact with over 600 million monthly active users. Founded in 2011 and backed by venture capitalists, Intercom is on a mission to make internet business personal.

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Wondershare Rolls out EdrawMind 6.0 Update with New Mind Mapping and Brainstorming Tools

Wondershare | January 17, 2023

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