Meeting Topic: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
Moderator Name: Barrie Zimmerman
Speaker Name: Ganesh Gandhieswaran and Gopinath Jaganmohan
Meeting Location: Bloomington, IN
Ganesh Gandhieswaran and Gopinath Jaganmohan, Co-founders and leaders of the artificial intelligence company Thickstat, discussed the amazing recent development of computer-generated voice and speech recognition technology. Some specific topics included the differences between Amazon's Alexa systems and Google home devices, how these programs utilize deep learning technologies to understand and replicate human languages, and what kinds of jobs are available in this new and exciting field. Audience members got to learn about a subset of audio technology that's not as frequently discussed, but is becoming incredibly important in our modern age.