In this program we turn our attention to the development of digital assistants, otherwise known as chatbots, with a particular focus on AI, deep learning, what’s new in the Oracle Digital Assistant platform, and why data is the new oil.
My guests for this discussion are Suhas Uliyar, Vice President of Mobile Strategy Product Management for Oracle, and Mark Johnson, Chief AI Scientist with the Oracle Digital Assistant product team.
This program is Groundbreakers Podcast number 372. It was recorded on September 16, 2019 during Oracle Code One in San Francisco.
The Panelists
Suhas Uliyar
Vice-President, Bots/AI/Mobile Product Management, Oracle
Bothell, Washington
“Spoken language involves complex linguistic constructs… Today’s natural language processing engines are not able to handle that. Try that with Alexa and you’ll get frustrated.”
Mark Johnson
Chief AI Scientist, Oracle Digital Assistant, Oracle
Sydney, Australia
“Deep learning differs from earlier machine learning and AI technology in that it’s capable of tracking much greater context. So instead of just looking at dependencies between between one or two or three items, deep learning is able to span dozens of items. The the ability to track this additional complexity gives deep learning systems the ability to actually understand much much more complex queries.”