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AI, NLP, No-Code Platforms Expedite Digital Transformation
Natural language processing and simple software development tools – that are low-code or no-code solutions – are helping organizations become customer-friendly, efficient, and mobile.
For example, Amazon now offers a tool called Alexa Skills Blueprint. That enables organizations to create applications that users can interact with using their voice.
As I reported earlier this week, Apple and Google recently have introduced tools that make it easy for application developers to bring artificial intelligence into products and applications.
And a mobile app platform company called AppSheet introduced AppSheet Spec last month. This tool allows users to enter a single sentence to inform the platform what their app is about. And the AppSheet Spec builds the app for them and learns over time via crowdsourcing.
When Amazon introduced Alexa Skills Blueprints in April it talked about how people could use the tool to make their personal lives more efficient and fun. At launch it provided “at home” Blueprints that allowed users to build apps to give babysitters, houseguests, and petsitters easy access to important information. It unveiled “fun & games” Blueprints to create a list of family favorite jokes and trivia, inspirational quote lists, and party games. And it offered up “storyteller” and “learning & knowledge” Blueprints to create customized stories, facts, flash cards, and quizzes.
But now businesses and organizations are using Blueprints too. For example, the City of Albuquerque used the technology to create an app that allows Amazon Alexa users to speak. They can use this interface to get information (such as office hours), provide information (such as reporting graffiti), and to complete transactions (such as scheduling large item garbage pickups).
As for AppSheet, individuals and organizations in communications, construction, landscaping, medical, non-profit, and other arenas use the mobile app creation platform.
Edited by Maurice Nagle