Albert AI makes intelligent virtual assistants accessible to SMBs

NoHold, a Milpitas, California-based artificial intelligence (AI) company that pioneered chatbots in the 1990s, has launched a "quickstart" platform targeted towards small to medium size businesses (SMBs) and individuals interested in creating virtual assistants quickly, easily, and cheaply. The Sicura Quickstart platform allows SMBs and individuals to create a virtual assistant automatically by uploading word documents, tables, PDFs, and images. No programming or advanced technical skills are required to get "Albert" up and running, however documents do need to be properly formatted, which NoHold founder Diego Ventura said is fairly easy to do. Windows 10 Creators Update: What's on tap for Spring 2017 for business users Facebook's Workplace: How one company is making it work for them Amazon Go: Here are the takeaways business tech execs need to know IBM Watson AI: These firms are fighting cybercrime using cognitive computing Windows 10 Creators Update: What's on tap for Spring 2017 for business users Facebook's Workplace: How one company is making it work for them "Companies that create products very often create a manual to go with those products. If we can create a virtual assistant as a byproduct of creating that manual, then we help a lot of people because that's a process that's already established," Ventura told ZDNet.