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Learn MoreThe project will consist of taking an out of the box artificial intelligence technology solution. The research will involve researching its deficiencies and improving on them by creating a proprietary solution to maximized its efficiency and ability to mimic human interaction. In this particular case, the way that IBM Watson discovery collects information from the websites it searches is very time consuming. The student will be looking to build a technology that sources information from specific websites in great detail, but quickly so that the response time has little to no lag. This will allow the chatbot to provide human-like responses but with increased accuracy and detail using the collected information as its reference point.
William McConkey
Eugene Wong
Digital Finance Institute
Computer science
Professional, scientific and technical services
University of Toronto
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