23-12-2017 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com

Why you want blockchain-based AI, even if you don’t know it yet

GUEST: The other night, my nine-year-old daughter (who is, of course, the most tech-savvy person in the house), introduced me to a new Amazon Alexa skill.
“Alexa, start a conversation,” she said.
We were immediately drawn into an experience with new bot, or, as the technologists would say, “conversational user interface” (CUI).  It was, we were told, the recent winner in an Amazon AI competition from the University of Washington.
At first, the experience was fun, but
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