Computational linguistics

• Dialpad, Inc. , the industry-leading Ai-Powered Customer Intelligence Platform, today announced that it has ranked #25 on the Forbes 2023 Cloud 100 , the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures .
• "Dialpad's recognition in the Cloud 100 amid the AI era underscores our integral role in the AI market and dedication to propelling responsible AI advancements,” said Craig Walker, CEO & Founder of Dialpad.
• For the eighth consecutive year, the Cloud 100 reviews submissions from hundreds of cloud startups and private companies each year.
• For market leadership, the Cloud 100 enlists the help of a judging panel of public cloud company CEOs who assist in evaluating and ranking their private company peers.

• Your yoga-teaching brother refuses to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and is confident that fresh air is the best medicine.
• Your boss is hiring another white man for a leadership team already made up entirely of white men.
• When that argument fails to have the intended persuasive impact, people often grow frustrated, and disagreement becomes conflict.
• And one of the easiest behaviors to change is the words that you say.

A conversational toolbox, based on what works

• Based on these analyses, we developed an algorithm that picks out specific words and phrases that make people in conflict feel that their counterpart is thoughtfully engaging with their perspective.
• Those who received a brief conversational receptiveness training were seen as more desirable teammates and advisers by their counterpart.
• Training also turned out to make people more persuasive in their arguments than those who did not learn about conversational receptiveness.

Measuring benefits of the tools in practice

• We paired vaccine-supportive participants with the vaccine hesitant and instructed them to persuade their partner to get the shot.
• We found that participants who received a couple minutes of instruction in conversational receptiveness were seen as more trustworthy and more reasonable by their counterparts.
• In a subsequent study, we explained the concept of conversational receptiveness to participants on both sides of the issue.

Dialing down the acrimony

• That’s an all-too-familiar experience for parents of teenagers who seem to have advanced degrees in ignoring unwelcome advice.
• Health care providers often face a similar challenge when they try to persuade patients to change behaviors they do not wish to change.
• Our work on conversational receptiveness builds on extensive prior research on the benefits of showing engagement with opposing perspectives.

• Carver Biosciences, Inc., a biotech company focused on the development of CRISPR/Cas13 antivirals, today announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).
• Cameron Myhrvold Ph.D., co-founder of Carver will serve as the chairman of the SAB.
• Additional appointments include Uri Lopatin, M.D., Olivia Merkel, Ph.D., and Neville Sanjana, Ph.D.
  “I am thrilled to have Dr. Lopatin, Dr. Merkel and Dr. Sanjana join our advisory board,” said Dr. Walter Strapps, co-founder and CEO of Carver.
• Dr. Sanjana holds a PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT, a BS in Symbolic Systems and a BA in English from Stanford University.

• The Stevie Awards for Women in Business is an international competition produced by the creators of the prestigious International Business Awards and American Business Awards.
• More than 1,500 nominations from organizations and individuals around the world from 27 nations were submitted to the awards this year.
• Its an honor to be recognized by the judging committee and to be considered among the ranks of so many incredible, innovative women, said Ms. Krauthamer.
• In 2020 Ms. Krauthamer was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for her work in quantum computing and was recently named as one of the top 12 Women Shaping Quantum Computing.