Conversations Squared #2 – Jason F. Gilbert

Conversations Squared with Jason F Gilbert

Jason F. Gilbert (aka The BotMan) is the Lead Character Designer at Intuition Robotics. Originally a filmmaker, he’s worked on loads of bots through the years for various brands on chat and voice, as well as digital humans (such as ‘Anna’) and now with ElliQ – a robotic companion for elderly Americans.

Is our love for the web holding us back?

Many of the brands Kane interviews on VUX World are taking careful 1st steps into conversational AI. They already have a website, they have a smartphone app, they have a contact centre, and they’ve begun creating a chatbot or voicebot. The majority of those brands are from America and Europe. In emerging markets it’s a […]

You must see Amelia’s 7 Design Principles

How do you ensure you’re on the right track in conversational AI? How do you ensure you’re not wasting time and resources on something that won’t help anyone? Many designers keep principles in mind while they work. Design principles are at best a great resource for aligning minds when people collaborate, and at worst a […]

AI at Marks and Spencer: 2 current use cases

How do you take a quintessential British brand, steeped in tradition and history, with a legion of customers (quite a few who are in the older demographic) and transform it for the digital age? Here’s how M&S did it.