Demystifying Conversational AI

Ricardo Baeza-Yates
5 min readJun 20, 2020

What Is It, How Does It Work and Why You Should Care?

One of the most exciting things about first dates is the chance to get to know someone. With most people attached to their smartphones, it’s getting harder to meet people in a traditional setting. For years now, dating apps have been using algorithms to help people find love, but what if finding love meant divulging deeply personal details … to a chatbot ?

That’s exactly what a group of young adults are doing in Japan to help break the ice in social settings and…

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Ricardo Baeza-Yates

World-class expert on data science and algorithms. Director of Research at EAI Northeastern University. Former VP of Research at Yahoo Labs. ACM & IEEE Fellow.