AI is changing finance with NLP and chatbots

The glossy AIs you see in movies and mags – they might be out of reach for today, but there's still huge opportunities to gain a competitive edge with AI and its three component parts. Perception in AI is the collecting and processing of data from the surrounding environment. Examples include image and object detection, as used in machine vision; speech recognition, the kind deployed in call centres; and location sensing, the likes of GPS, LIDAR and the Radar systems used in self-driving cars. Processing natural language is a challenge in AI development. There's inherent problems with language: it's irregular, it's context dependent, and Stephen Fry is just about the only CPU who can use it perfectly.