Conversational AI agency VERSA is to partner Mogaé in a joint venture. Announcing a Diwali India launch, VERSA said its expansion into this country is to capitalise on demand for specialised conversational strategy and design in a market with a population of more than 1.3 billion people, and an installed base of nearly a billion mobile phones. VERSA India will be a 50/50 joint venture between VERSA (Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia; with US operations out of Seattle) and Mogaé Consultants, owned by Sandeep & Tanya Goyal. Dr. Sandeep Goyal, is a well-known advertising & media veteran who has been a past President of Rediffusion, ex-Group CEO of Zee Telefilms and former Founder Chairman of Dentsu India. Tanya Goyal has been a six-term member of the Governing Council of the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) and was Executive Director of Dentsu India.

The world's biggest consumer electronics show was held last month and wandering around the seemingly endless stalls of emerging new products, it was impossible to avoid the claims of artificial intelligence in some form or another. Some gadgets were, of course, smarter than others. From facial recognition food bowls for your pets to handheld speech recognition and language translation devices, smart tech and self-learning algorithms abound. The actual intelligence of some smart products is debatable but the trend is undeniable.Source:Supplied Encompassing terms including deep learning, machine learning, neural networks and general artificial intelligence which seeks to build computers with a capacity to think and learn like humans, it can be hard to pin down what AI truly means. But it's clearly here to stay.