AI's the new buzzword in Vietnamese tech space. Will it take off?

Artificial intelligence (AI) can become a game changer for Vietnamese technology startups, say experts, as they are betting big on the potential to deploy chatbots and image recognition to deep learning in the country. "AI can be integrated into many verticals because the ultimate purpose of AI is to assist, or even to replace, human efforts in doing things in a more effective way," Nghiem Xuan Bach, project director at Cinnamon AI Lab, told DEALSTREETASIA. Consider some of the recent developments in this space: Cyberagent Ventures-backed healthcare app ViCare is applying AI technology, with a chatbot to solve users' queries. It is reportedly the first chatbot to be launched in Vietnam. Users interact with the bot through Facebook Messenger to ask for information about clinic facilities, doctor identity and remedies, as ViCare claims to have a database of over 21,000 healthcare facilities and 22,000 doctors across the country.