[Lisa_teatalk] [Lisa_labo] [TeaTalk] Puneet Mehta on The Turing Test for Commerce: Introducing msg.ai Montreal Research Lab

Çağlar Gülçehre ca9lar at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 13:36:02 EDT 2016


On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Sungjin Ahn <sjn.ahn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sep.30, 11am
> Where: AA6214
>
> **************
> The Turing Test for Commerce: Introducing msg.ai Montreal Research Lab
> Messaging is the top habit on the smartphone with the top 4 messaging apps
> having over 3 billion users. With brands becoming a part of interactive
> part of this experience, messaging apps are becoming the new browser with
> AI becoming the new user interface. This is the biggest shift in digital
> commerce since the smartphone.
>
> **************
> About the speaker
> Puneet is the Founder and CEO of msg.ai. He spent much of his career as a
> tech executive on Wall Street, building predictive engines to power
> large-scale trading bots. Puneet has been named to Advertising Age’s
> Creativity 50 list, Business Insider’s “The Silicon Alley 100” and “35
> Up-And-Coming Entrepreneurs You Need To Meet.” Puneet started his career at
> IBM TJ Watson Research Center and actively comments on the topics of
> bots, personalization and conversational ux. In his spare time, he rides
> and works on his vintage motorcycle, mixes music, studies minimalist
> industrial design, and volunteers for a non-profit.
>
> About msg.ai
> msg.ai is a Y-Combinator and VC-backed AI platform for conversational
> commerce. With $7.7mm in seed financing (not fully announced yet) from tier
> one VCs and some of the top AI entrepreneurs (e.g. founders of Google
> DeepMind, founders of OpenAI and others), msg.ai board and advisors
> include the last CEO of twitter and the last head of search for Google.
> Customers include various Fortune 500 companies that are using msg.ai platform
> to build messaging bots for marketing, sales and service. Consumers have an
> incredible appetite to interact with brands through one-on-one
> conversations, and our platform is the AI dialog system on all the popular
> messaging platforms.
> With offices in San Francisco, New York City, and India, msg.ai is now
> opening a Deep Learning research lab in Montreal, where all
> of company’s R&D would be performed.
>
> --
> Sungjin Ahn
> Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
> University of Montreal
> Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Office 3355
> Phone: (514) 649-0296
>

Hi Sungjin,

For some reason, this tea-talk was not on the lisa-stuff calendar. Do you
know who adds these events to the calendar?

Cheers,




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Caglar GULCEHRE
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