Cisco gives its UC a spark of intelligence with $125m MindMeld acquisition

MindMeld is an aritificial intelligence company that specialises in creating human-like conversational interfaces. Cisco thinks that tech will improve its Spark suite.
The key buzzword with this acquisition seems to be ‘conversational interfaces’, which seems to be a techy amplification of ‘conversation’. Being able to communicate with machines in the same way we do people is a hot trend right now thanks to things like Siri and Alexa, but we’re not there yet and the