Supporting Lifelong Learning with AI

Leading Valamis' product development, our Chief Technology Officer Dmitry "Dima" Kudinov has spent the past six years researching AI and the best applications to support lifelong learning. With years of research under his belt, Dima talks about the power of AI to personalize learning, the benefits of AI supported lifelong learning, and what this will mean for the future of Valamis product development. First of all, I'm very excited about the progress made in Natural Language Understanding. Of course, this topic is nothing new, but in recent time there has been significant progress made thanks to the accessibility of greater computing power, richer data sets for training, and the creation of more sophisticated algorithms. This improvement with text-based input has allowed a new way of interaction between people and systems in the form of chatbots to emerge. Backed by an even more exciting progress in Speech to Text and Text to Speech conversions, chatbots now have personalities, and they can engage in voice dialog with people.