Adolescent Sean Le Van's artificial intelligence creation designed to boost an individual's happiness level
The IBM Watson Group, a leading force in the development of cloud-delivered cognitive applications and services, has announced that it will receive over $1 billion in investment and employ more than 600 individuals. This expansion comes after the establishment of a new business unit dedicated to Watson in January 2019, headquartered in New York City.
Meanwhile, in a remarkable display of youthful innovation, a 14-year-old boy from Anaheim, California, named Sean Le Van, has created a contextually aware, artificially intelligent bot named Acuman. This personal assistant bot responds to everyday language and learns information about a user's life and personality, setting a new benchmark in the field of artificial intelligence.
Acuman uses natural language processing algorithms and a scripting language developed by Le Van. It interacts with participants productively by reminding them of their goals of self-improvement, which are customized based on the data the bot has accumulated. The bot also analyzes data gathered from conversations to create categorized visual representations, such as infographics.
Acuman won first place in the 'Best New Bot' category at the 2015 Chatterbox Challenge, demonstrating its potential in the realm of artificial intelligence. Le Van claims that current methods of collecting quantified-self personal metrics are not always accurate and do not autonomously track and catalog data for the participant.
IBM's Watson system, a well-known example of cognitive computing, is capable of executing hundreds of algorithms simultaneously and responding within three seconds. The creation of Acuman by a 14-year-old boy might suggest what IBM's greatest minds and a $1 billion investment could create in the future.
Sean Le Van, who has listed himself as a software engineer on LinkedIn, has two jobs: a community moderator at privacy search engine DuckDuckGo and a developer at a small web development and design company. Before developing Acuman, he received training in computer science and software engineering.
Acuman is a web-based bot that can be conversed with, and it is the first bot that can analyze and gather data for the purpose of 'personal and psychological betterment'. This groundbreaking development in artificial intelligence could pave the way for a new era of personalized, intelligent assistance.
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