Category "Chatbot News - UmniBot"

Umni participated with a stand in a 2-day International Beauty Conference, organized by the Association of Medical Beauticians (AMB) in Sofia, at the Grand Hotel Millennium. The conference brought together owners and professionals from the beauty industry with world-renowned speakers and professionals, manufacturers, suppliers, and others. Thanks to the partnership with AMB, Umni was able to present a chatbot for a website in the best possible way – by making a basic chatbot for the conference, which would inform the participants about the program and the speakers.

It is an honor for our team to see the name of our CEO, Elitзa Stoilova, оn the list of Top 25 women from Bulgaria who contribute to the development of the VC & Startup ecosystem in Central and Eastern Europe. The list was compiled by Vetsbee, a leading platform and community of start-ups and investors in the region, and it was a pleasant surprise for the team. We are happy that the efforts of our team and our CEO have received such recognition.

This week’s top news in the world of AI chatbots is the scandal surrounding Google engineer Blake Lemoine, which was removed from his position in the company after he announced that the language model for dialog applications of the technology giant, LaMDA (conversational artificial intelligence), has become an intelligent creature with a level of intelligence of a 7- or 8-year-old child. LaMDA is a dialogue-trained model with 1.56 trillion words and 2.81 trillion sentences behind its training.

If you’re listening to a late-night radio show and chatting with a business at the same time, you’re not a weird person. In the last 2-3 years, chatting around midnight has become a habit for about 35% -45% of Bulgarians – and not only in our country. These are statistics from the chatbots of businesses from different industries, made on the chatbot platform of Umni.

Every month ITB promotes ITB Community Insights articles to all community members. Our team feels honored to be included in the ITB newsletter for April 2022, with our article “The Post-Pandemic Opportunity for AI Chatbots in the Hotels and Tourism Industry” featured among 3 other articles. We are glad that the topic about the usage of AI chatbots in the hospitality industry keep attracting attention.