Tony is a Geek

 Vodafone and TOBi chat bot https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56969347 Interesting headline at the top of the article....somewhat slightly mis-leading, but hey-ho Google... Took me back a bit though, not in shock, in time! Although I do very much like the fact that the reporter / Vodafone were honest and did explain that IBM Watson invented TOBi chatbot back in 2017 - I thank you very much, I will accept this and will take a bow..... Yes, I very much helped to make that a reality and then moved on.... That's what FOAK projects are for.... (First Of A Kind), you do something new, lay the foundations and then move on and then others come along and take it further... Hmmm... 2017, that seems soooooo long ago now.

I've been a little quiet on the "work orientated" technical / geek front for most of this year.  The main reason being, I re-focused my geeki-ness - mainly due to the work I was doing here last year: http://tonyisageek.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/ibm-bmw-and-iot.html Now, I've officially migrated to the IBM Watson group , where my role is to help transform businesses using Cloud based Cognitive technologies that can think like a human, using the IBM Watson API services. Here's an official Vodafone press release on something I've been contributing to: Vodafone to use artificial intelligence to speed up online queries TOBi, Vodafone’s new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, is now helping some customers online It will be available soon in the My Vodafone app new messaging service as well, so customers can speak to advisors whenever they want Vodafone UK has launched TOBi – the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot – as an innovative way of offeri...