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Symposium Stockholm 2016: Eugenia Kuyda

The founder of Luka, an artificial intelligence company, explains creating a chatbot to honor her best friend

15 June 201624 August 2018

When Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend Roman passed away last year, it was the first time the CEO of Luka lost someone so close—and she was unaccustomed to experiencing such grief. Luka, which Kuyda founded, is an artificial intelligence company that builds conversational bots, chatbots, and was the first company to publicly launch an English-speaking chatbot based on an artificial neural network. Roman was a start-up …

Symposium Stockholm 2016: Doug Aitken

We speak to the artist about technology, social media and art, and where they all meet

Cajsa Carlson

14 June 201624 August 2018

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This past weekend saw the tech-savvy city of Stockholm host the second edition of Symposium Stockholm, a “festival of ideas” started by Spotify’s Daniel Ek and founder of At Night Management, Ash Pournouri. As part of the Symposium, the two-day Brilliant Minds conference gathered entrepreneurs, artists and tech creatives to talk about collaborative creativity. Among the speakers were Cool Hunting favorite Doug Aitken, whose work …