Microsoft Power Virtual Agents: a first look
Microsoft Power Virtual Agents, now in preview, is a new offering that enables subject matter experts in your organization – such as customer service, sales, marketing, finance, or HR –…
Knowledge-based Job Recommender Systems presented at RecSys 2019
The ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys) is a world class, international conference for offering the state-of-the-art research outcomes, systems and techniques in the field of recommender systems. “Recommendation is a particular…
13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems — RecSys2019 Copenhagen
RecSys 2019 — Copenhagen ( https://recsys.acm.org/) RecSys is one of the most famous and important ACM conferences which captures the cutting-edge of innovation with a special focus on recommender systems. People from…
A conversation with Alphie
Alphabet is a BMW Group Company leasing company cars, bicycles and vans. It offers mobility solutions and products for fleet management and fleet financing worldwide. They have a fleet of…
Beamer, a case study for in-chat authentication, image processing and OCR for a swift and secure chatbot experience
Introduction This project was actually an internship project developed by 2 students from VIVES College Kortrijk who had never touched AI or the Microsoft Bot Framework prior to working at arinti. The idea…
AI and RPA for an automated sales order process
When (conversational) AI meets RPA. A collaboration between FLINQ and Arinti to help you automate everyday repetitive tasks. How many times a day do you have to copy values from an…
Build! 2019 Day 1
If anyone thinks the annual Microsoft Build! Conference is only for techies, than you are wrong! First of all, there is an enormous Data & AI zone where anyone can…
AI4Business Summit Brussels 2019
Last Thursday the 14th of March 2019 I had the pleasure to join the AI 4 Business Summit 2019 in Brussels, a yearly event that introduces business professionals to the…
Deploying an Image classification model in Azure as a Web Service.
This blog is about how to create a simple image classification model using Keras framework and deploy it into Azure Cloud as a web Service. By the end of the…
Robots in the City Hall?
About our Proof of Concept with TomorrowLab and the city of Aalter (BE). Last week, Arinti made national press with a Proof of Concept we’ve been working on for the…
An AI Love Story: Intelligent Receptionist
Chatbot working together with RPA bot: a game changer! We recently teamed up with the guys at Roborana for the InQbet Robotics and AI Hackathon organized by Procter & Gamble. The idea…
With Pepper in Paris
a brief report on my first encounter with developing for humanoid robots I can hear you think, who is Pepper? So let me introduce him/her/it (you decide!). Pepper is human-shaped…
When Chatbots meet RPA bots
An AI love story “How can we merge Chatbots and RPA?” is a question we’ve asked ourselves a few months ago, when we first found out about BleuPrism, UiPath, and…
On how I learned the skills to build my first working chatbot
Ok, let me be honest with you. I am new to chatbots and three weeks before I was mainly fluent in MATLAB. Therefore, I will not go into detail about…
Review: Andrew NG’s Deep Learning Specialization
Part 1: Neural Networks and Deep Learning Intro Andrew Ng is known for being a great a teacher. His new deep learning specialization on Coursera is no exception. The course contains…
R SERVICES: ADVANCED ANALYTICS BINNEN SQL SERVER 2016
In een vorige blogpost kon je lezen wat R is, wanneer en waarvoor je R kunt gebruiken en hoe je ermee van start gaat. Vandaag vertellen we je hoe je met deze…
WHY INVEST IN DATA SCIENCE?
Insurers are investing in data scientists” “How data science is changing the energy industry” “How big data is revolutionizing the food industry” “How data science is driving the driver less…
SOCIAL SCIENCE — TEXT MINING ON TWITTER DATA
In my previous blog post I talked about how to get Twitter data into Power BI. This article will discuss how you can apply text mining on that data with some R…
The Intelligence is not in the bot
I was speaking at a meetup last week about a chatbot we developed for a city in Flanders, Belgium. Someone in the crowd asked how much personalization goes into the answers the…
SOCIAL SCIENCE — GET TWITTER DATA IN POWER BI
Ever wanted to do some analytics on tweets with a certain hashtag (#) or from a certain user (@)? Don’t look any further, there is a great tool called Microsoft…
Using Azure Event Hub with Node.js
IOT seems to be everywhere thesedays. From your car to your fridge. Building applications that use the power of IOT devices can be very useful. In this blog post I…
Will machines ever learn to read our minds?
Part V: Discussion and conclusion Aren’t we all a bit afraid of it? Of robots that are able to read our thoughts and mind? The absolute end of privacy? But…
Will machines ever learn to read our minds?
Part IV: Decomposition of heart rate Intro Today, we arrive at the third and last real-time stress monitoring technique that we will discuss in this series of blogposts. It is…
Will machines ever learn to read our minds?
Part III: Heart rate variability Intro My dear, where to start. There’s so much to explain about heart rate variability (HRV) that a blogpost is almost too short. Anyway, there…
Will machines ever learn to read our minds?
Part II: Skin conductance Skin conductance, also known as electrodermal activity (EDA) is based on the theory that skin conductance varies with the status of the sweat glands in our…
Will machines ever learn to read our minds?
Part I: Background Within four to five weeks, I’m going to let myself in with a prediction about whether machines will ever learn to read our minds, and I’m not…
MS Bot Framework: What are controllers, dialogs, helpers and models?
Different pieces of code in a bot application Controller A controller controls what happens with a message as soon as the user has sent it to the bot. I wouldn’t…
How to plan meetings ten times faster with Outlook and Donnabot
How Donna met LUIS Meetings, meetings, meetings … Ever wondered how you are supposed to schedule that meeting? Too busy, too little space in your agenda and too many things on your…
Voicebots & Call Center Automation
We’ve all had our good and bad experiences with call centers. Some people consider it a necessary evil, others would say it quite literally saved their life one day. If…
The (Data) Science of Winning
The data revolution in cycling Data is powerful, it can change the way people look at things, by bringing a deeper understanding of the matter. This is no different for cycling.…
Databricks: Importing data from a Blob storage
A while ago I started working with DataBricks, that can be accessed from inside Microsoft Azure. This blogpost is about importing data from a Blob storage, what can go right,…
GDPR — What do you need to keep in mind while building a chatbot
The countdown to the 25th of May has begun… Is your organisation fully ready for GDPR? Building chatbots is one of our specialities, and we would like to share some…
De robots zijn er al, nu jij nog!
Pepper op bezoek bij Technopolis Tijdens de eerste week van de paasvakantie kan je onze Pepper robot vinden bij Technopolis. De robot zal er een week lang deel uitmaken van…
Azure Databricks: Plotting data made simple
Using PySpark Intro Plotting data against each other, can be done in several ways in Databricks. This blogpost focusses on PySpark to plot the data. If you’re working in R,…
Coder == (Nerd || Geek) + Communication Skills 👎?
Let’s shake off that stereotype! You don’t get something for nothing. And that’s the origin of a strategy. Because if you and me want to achieve something, we’ll have to…
Robot Pepper at its best
Pepper @ Sound of Science Previous sunday, Pepper was a guest @ Sound of Science, a science festival at the beautiful location of Hof ter Linden, Edegem. As soon as I…
Linear Regression and Gradient Descent
How to reach the minimum of a cost function Todays blog is all about gradient descent, explained through the example of linear regression. Gradient descent is used to find the best fit for…
Overfitting versus Underfitting
Suppose you created a model and predicted or forecasted a horizontal straight line, while your observations clearly have a seasonal pattern. The observations don’t show a straight line at all.…
Azure Windows Virtual Machines
Virtual machines? Clusters? Nodes? Confused? Lucky you! Not so long ago I went to Amsterdam, and it wasn’t for a long weekend/holiday/fun trip, but for a workshop filled with sweat…
A plea for boring bots
because not all bots need to be great at conversation. Lots of great chat- and voicebots have been developed and presented to the public in the last couple of months.…
Think before you code
Give your efficiency a boost The story of a data scientist learning the way around software engineering At university, my promotor and I once talked about writing a thesis. The conclusion…
Interesting AI Developments: Episode 1
Seeing through walls with AI Lately, Professor Dina Katabi from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is getting closer and closer to seeing through walls with help of artificial intelligence (AI).…
A gathering of unicorns in Amsterdam!
Our highlights from 2 days at the World Summit AI. On October 11–12, part of our team was in Amsterdam for the yearly World Summit AI, the largest conference about Applied…