
Artificial Intelligence is fast evolving. In doing so, it has increasingly challenged traditional conceptions of human-technology interaction. For quite some time, traditional AI systems were seen as ways through which processes could be automated, data managed, or even routine tasks executed. However, with the unveiling of Talkie Soulful AI by TalkietalkieAI, all perceptions of communication between humans and machines are changing. It nurtures emotional intelligence and connects humans more soulfully. Talkie AI is where the future of communication is going from functionality to an AI that creates depth on an emotional level. Concept of Talkie Soulful AI At its core, Talkie Soulful AI has advanced algorithms added with emotional intelligence in natural-sounding conversations to render realism and humanness. Whereas most of those general AI methods would just answer the responses in a script, Talkie AI is designed to give responses to even the nuances and complexity whenever an emotion inside the conversation calls for it. Because this technology uses natural language processing, literally every single interaction goes through, capturing context and sentiment, and gives out relevant responses that emotionally resonate. Gone are the mechanical and impersonal dialogues with Talkie Soulful AI; in their place come meaningful exchanges that stir and heighten feelings of empathy and understanding. This reflects the shift in the manner of communication of people in today’s society, which screams for real life connections at the back of increased automation. Talkie AI: Redefining How Humans Communicate Talkie Soulful AI is the frontier in the future revolution of communication. Well, here is how changes are: 1. Emotionally Intelligent Conversations It takes into consideration most of the serious criticism that traditional AI systems face on the ground of the inability of those to understand human sentiments and respond meaningfully towards these. The architecture within the core of Talkie Soulful AI holds emotional intelligence. While doing this, AI Talkie detects human sentiments ranging over joy, sadness, frustration, excitement, or other feeling manifestations. Further, the context changes depending on the sentiment portrayed. In the input given-for responding-give it a personal appeal, it is looking to light the conversation through emotions. 2. Personalization and Context Awareness What makes Talkie Soulful AI so special is the personalization it offers. It is continuously learning from previous interactions with the user over time. It shapes its patterns of response according to user preference, personality, and even emotional triggers to provide unique, connecting dialogues. Also, Talkie Soulful AI is contextually aware: instead of narrowing the focus down to just one message, it expands to the big conversation. It keeps in mind what has been said by the user, hence also capable of making responses coherent with those made earlier, enhancing continuity and authenticity. 3. Companionship and Emotional Support The role of emotional support cannot be overemphasized where Talkie AI is mentioned. People have been looking for companionship in distress moments or during counseling, and Talkie Soulful AI offers an easily accessible space to talk about a problem. Whether loneliness, anxiety, or just stress is felt, the response of AI Talkie pops up with soothing and empathetic statements that make a person feel heard and not abandoned. With the addition of real-time emotional intelligence, the Talkie Soulful AI ceases to be just a digital assistant but a companion, one in whom one would entrust their comfort and understanding. This is important in particular in moments when immediate human support is not available or if they would like to talk with an AI that really listened and understood them without judgment. 4. 24/7 Availability Yet another strong aspect with the use of Talkie Soulful AI: unlike the availability of human interaction-which, in turn, could be restricted by time zones, schedules, or general unavailability – AI Talkie is available 24/7. Be it deep into the night, through a busy workday, or even during the midst of a personal crisis, it’s always there to support one, guide them, or just converse with them. This no doubt makes AI Talkie an invaluable asset for any person who may seek emotional support or even assistance at any time. Soulful Communication In the rapid pace of the digital landscape, effective communication usually goes out the window. Yet, soulful communication is a basic human need-true empathy, comprehension, and acknowledgment. The capability to deeply connect with others fosters trust, collaboration, and emotional well-being both in personal relationships and at work. Talkie Soulful AI comes to fill in the need for conversations: warm, appealing, and responsive to the emotional cue. It is thus priceless in many areas, ranging from customer service to mental health support and education. TalkieTalkieAI Conceptualization of AI It is such pioneering and leading with vision that is undertaken in order to work for the remodeling of communications using an emotional intelligence approach. Therefore, TalkieTalkieAI believes in the principle of continuous improvement so that Talkie Soulful AI lets it grow into ever-changing user needs for the greater good of building up one connected digital space. The mission of TalkietalkieAI is straightforward: to make good use of advanced technology in bringing people closer and enriching their interactions. As the company envisions building Talkie AI, it sees a future wherein technology connects rather than isolates us from meaningful human understanding. Conclusion It is reconnecting with causes and deeper reasons for the imagination of ways through which we can communicate better. Talkie Soulful AI: This is an innovative technological creation leading the movement to authentic engagement in interactions within different aspects of our lives, brought to the audience by TalkietalkieAI. The prospect of a talkative and soulful AI points to a future in which good communication will be cherished. This exciting evolution not only amplifies our personal and professional interactions but also reaffirms, in our increasing digital world, the intrinsic value of connection. Welcome to the voice of the future in soul-speaking, welcome to Talkie AI. Technology will help us reach each other, create understanding, and deepen connections in an empathetic way.
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Manyise who was a radiographer by profession died on Sundayafter an InterAfrica bus he was travelling in rammed into a stationary trucknear Dabuka along the Harare-Bulawayo Highway. He was among the seven passengers who died on the spot. Hisbrother Dr Maseko Manyise confirmed the death in a telephone interview with TheMirror. Manyise was buried in Mavhungwe area under Chief Nyajena on Thursday. Weare saddened by the untimely death. He was a minister in the church, an exceptionalcommunicator and was remarkable in the way he solved problems. He was asociable man and he impacted the lives of people through his sound advice andinspiration,” said Dr Manyise. The deceased was working at Fort Street Medical and DentalSurgery in Bulawayo. He did his primary education (Grade 1-3) at Chiwawa inNyajena from 1985 to 1987. He transferred to Nyajena primary and completedGrade 7 in 1987. He went to Nyabata High for his Ordinary Level education.He joined the Army in 1998 and fought in the DRC war from 1999-2000. He trainedas a radiographer during his stint in the Army. He obtained a Theology Degree in 2022 from the NationalUniversity of Science and Technology. He retired from the Army in 2021 andjoined the private sector as a radiographer based at Fort Street Medical andDental Surgery in Bulawayo. The deceased who was a member of the Mutendi -ZionChristian Church (ZCC) is survived by his wife Rejoice Chihanga and twochildren, a girl (20) and a boy (15). Masvingo Mirror
HUNTINGTON, W.V. — Marshall has withdrawn from the Independence Bowl after a coaching change resulted in much of its roster jumping into the transfer portal. The Thundering Herd were slated to play Army on Dec. 28 in Shreveport, Louisiana. But the Independence Bowl and Louisiana Tech announced on Saturday that the Bulldogs will take on the 19th-ranked Black Knights instead. Marshall said it pulled out “after falling below the roster minimum that was deemed medically safe.” The Herd (10-3) beat Louisiana-Lafayette 31-3 last weekend to win the Sun Belt Conference Championship for the first time. The program has won seven games in a row in the same season for the first time since 2020. “We apologize for the nature and timing of this announcement and for the turmoil it has brought to bowl season preparations for Army, the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl, the American Athletic Conference and ESPN,” Sun Belt Commissioner Keith Gill said in a statement. Coach Charles Huff left Marshall for Southern Miss last Sunday, and Tony Gibson, the defensive coordinator at North Carolina State, was announced as his replacement less than an hour later. By Thursday, at least 25 Marshall players had entered the transfer portal. Gibson held a meeting shortly after arriving on campus in Huntington to introduce himself to the team. He followed that up with phone calls, text messages and more meetings Friday and Saturday. “Any time coaches leave to take other jobs, it is emotional,” Gibson said at a news conference Thursday. “And kids that are 18-to-22 years old are going to make emotional decisions instead of just breathing for a day or two.” It's the first bowl for Louisiana Tech (5-7) since 2020. The Bulldogs have won two of their last three games, but they haven't played since a 33-0 victory over Kennesaw State on Nov. 30. “We are excited to accept the opportunity to play in the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl against a fantastic and storied program as Army,” Louisiana Tech athletic director Ryan Ivey said in a release. “I believe our football program is moving toward positive structure and the opportunity to play in this bowl adds to that momentum. We are looking forward to being in Shreveport for this matchup.” Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballMid-cap stocks are excellent additions to your portfolio. They offer higher growth prospects than large-cap stocks while being less risky than small-cap stocks. 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Given its highly customizable platform and introduction of artificial intelligence-powered tools, the company could continue to expand its market share in the coming quarters. So, I expect the uptrend in Docebo’s financials and stock price to continue. Lightspeed Commerce My final pick is ( ), which has been under pressure this week, losing 9.5% of its stock value. On Monday, the company announced it would slash 200 jobs amid its reorganization initiative to optimize its operations. It also added that it would incur most of the restructuring charges in the third quarter of fiscal 2025. So, investors are worried that the reorganization charges could hurt its profitability, thus leading to a correction. Meanwhile, the selloff has created an excellent buying opportunity for long-term customers in Lightspeed due to its solid growth prospects. The secular shift towards an omnichannel selling model has created a multi-year growth potential for the company. The company continues to launch innovative products, focusing on North American retail and EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) hospitality sectors. Besides, its unified POS (point-of-sales) and Payments offering has expanded the adoption of its Payments platform, thus driving its GPV (gross payment volume) and financials. Along with these growth initiatives, Lightspeed has adopted several cost-cutting initiatives, which could boost its profitability. Despite these growth prospects, the company trades 2.2 times , making it an excellent buy.
NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge won't be bothered if free agent Juan Soto gets a bigger deal from the New York Yankees than the captain's $360 million , nine-year contract. “It ain’t my money. I really don’t care as long as we get the best players, we get the most that we can, I’m happy with whatever,” Judge said Friday, a day after he was a unanimous winner of his second AL MVP award. “That's never been something on my mind about who gets paid the most.” Judge led the major leagues with 58 homers, 144 RBIs and 133 walks while hitting .322 as New York reached the World Series for the first time since 2009, only to lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers . Soto batted .288 with 41 homers, 109 RBIs and 129 walks in his first season with the Yankees and finished third in MVP voting, also trailing Kansas City shortstop Bobby Witt. Jr. A free agent at 26, Soto has met with the Yankees, Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox, and he plans to meet with the Philadelphia Phillies, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the meetings have not been publicly announced. Negotiations are not likely to intensify until after Thanksgiving. Judge hasn’t spoken with Soto since the World Series. Judge went through the free-agent experience after hitting an AL record 62 homers in 2022. “The best thing is to really give those guys space," Judge said. "I talked to him all season and he knows how we feel about him and I think the most important thing is now let him do his thing with his family, pray about it, talk with people and come to the right decision for him and his family.” Soto met with Yankees officials on Monday at a hotel in southern California, a group that included owner Hal Steinbrenner, team president Randy Levine, general manager Brian Cashman, manager Aaron Boone and senior adviser for baseball operations Omar Minaya. “We had a good meeting. It was a very honest back-and-forth dialogue, a couple hours long,” Steinbrenner said Wednesday. Asked how confident he was about keeping Soto, Steinbrenner said: “No idea. We’ll be in the mix. I’ll leave it at that.” Soto and Judge filled the Nos. 2 and 3 slots in the Yankees batting order in a franchise-record 153 games, topping the 145 of Joe Dugan and Babe Ruth in 1923, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. “I get to see a lot of pitches," Judge said. "He's going to be a tough at-bat in front of me. He’s going to wear down the pitcher right there in the first inning, within the first 15 pitches or so. Yeah, I think that was a big impact just having having a guy like that in front of you. "If I could have eight Juan Sotos in the lineup with me, I would love that.” After the World Series, Judge spent about a week in Tampa, Florida, where the Yankees hold spring training, and met with Steinbrenner. “We kind of just discussed a lot of things from Juan to other guys that are kind of out there that I think could definitely help this team,:" Judge said. "So I kind of just gave my input on a couple things.” Judge said when he agreed to his big deal in late 2022, Steinbrenner wanted to have a deeper relationship. They've been meeting every week or two, and pitcher Gerrit Cole has developed a similar exchange with the owner. “I think just having that relationship to where I can kind of communicate with him about what I’m seeing, what I’m feeling, what I see with the guys, what I see against other guys that we play against,” Judge said. “I think it’s a cool part to where I think just the more communication you have from top to bottom, it just — it makes everybody better.” Judge's contract is baseball's fourth largest behind the deals of the Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani ($700 million), the Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout ($426.5 million) and the Dodgers' Mookie Betts ($365 million). Judge cited the example of teammate Giancarlo Stanton, whose $325 million deal was the highest when he joined the Yankees ahead of the 2018 season but now ranks tied for ninth. “Even though he signed one of those — the first big mega-contracts back in Miami, once he came here he didn’t care about the highest-paid guy. He just wanted good players around him,” Judge said. In joining Mickey Mantle in 1956 as the Yankees' only unanimous MVPs, Judge credited his teammates. “You look at every single one of my teammates in that room and know that each and every single one of them impacted me in a way that put me in that position,” Judge said. “So it’s always going to be a team award in my book.” ___ AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB Ronald Blum, The Associated PressBy Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News Worried that President-elect Donald Trump will curtail federal efforts to take on the nation’s medical debt problem, patient and consumer advocates are looking to states to help people who can’t afford their medical bills or pay down their debts. “The election simply shifts our focus,” said Eva Stahl, who oversees public policy at Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit that has worked closely with the Biden administration and state leaders on medical debt. “States are going to be the epicenter of policy change to mitigate the harms of medical debt.” New state initiatives may not be enough to protect Americans from medical debt if the incoming Trump administration and congressional Republicans move forward with plans to scale back federal aid that has helped millions gain health insurance or reduce the cost of their plans in recent years. Comprehensive health coverage that limits patients’ out-of-pocket costs remains the best defense against medical debt. But in the face of federal retrenchment, advocates are eyeing new initiatives in state legislatures to keep medical bills off people’s credit reports, a consumer protection that can boost credit scores and make it easier to buy a car, rent an apartment, or even get a job. Several states are looking to strengthen oversight of medical credit cards and other financial products that can leave patients paying high interest rates on top of their medical debt. Related Articles National Politics | Trump taps forceful ally of hard-line immigration policies to head Customs and Border Protection National Politics | How backlash to the pandemic helped shape Trump’s health picks National Politics | Nursing home industry wants Trump to rescind staffing mandate National Politics | Melania Trump says heading to the White House for the second term is much different than the first National Politics | Trump offers a public show of support for Pete Hegseth, his embattled nominee to lead the Pentagon Some states are also exploring new ways to compel hospitals to bolster financial aid programs to help their patients avoid sinking into debt. “There’s an enormous amount that states can do,” said Elisabeth Benjamin, who leads health care initiatives at the nonprofit Community Service Society of New York. “Look at what’s happened here.” New York state has enacted several laws in recent years to rein in hospital debt collections and to expand financial aid for patients, often with support from both Democrats and Republicans in the legislature. “It doesn’t matter the party. No one likes medical debt,” Benjamin said. Other states that have enacted protections in recent years include Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington. Many measures picked up bipartisan support. President Joe Biden’s administration has proved to be an ally in state efforts to control health care debt. Such debt burdens 100 million people in the United States, a KFF Health News investigation found . Led by Biden appointee Rohit Chopra, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has made medical debt a priority , going after aggressive collectors and exposing problematic practices across the medical debt industry. Earlier this year, the agency proposed landmark regulations to remove medical bills from consumer credit scores. The White House also championed legislation to boost access to government-subsidized health insurance and to cap out-of-pocket drug costs for seniors, both key bulwarks against medical debt. Trump hasn’t indicated whether his administration will move ahead with the CFPB credit reporting rule, which was slated to be finalized early next year. Congressional Republicans, who will control the House and Senate next year, have blasted the proposal as regulatory overreach that will compromise the value of credit reports. And Elon Musk, the billionaire whom Trump has tapped to lead his initiative to shrink government, last week called for the elimination of the watchdog agency . “Delete CFPB,” Musk posted on X. If the CFPB withdraws the proposed regulation, states could enact their own rules, following the lead of Colorado, New York, and other states that have passed credit reporting bans since 2023. Advocates in Massachusetts are pushing the legislature there to take up a ban when it reconvenes in January. “There are a lot of different levers that states have to take on medical debt,” said April Kuehnhoff, a senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, which has helped lead national efforts to expand debt protections for patients. Kuehnhoff said she expects more states to crack down on medical credit card providers and other companies that lend money to patients to pay off medical bills, sometimes at double-digit interest rates. Under the Biden administration, the CFPB has been investigating patient financing companies amid warnings that many people may not understand that signing up for a medical credit card such as CareCredit or enrolling in a payment plan through a financial services company can pile on more debt. If the CFPB efforts stall under Trump, states could follow the lead of California, New York, and Illinois, which have all tightened rules governing patient lending in recent years. Consumer advocates say states are also likely to continue expanding efforts to get hospitals to provide more financial assistance to reduce or eliminate bills for low- and middle-income patients, a key protection that can keep people from slipping into debt. Hospitals historically have not made this aid readily available, prompting states such as California, Colorado, and Washington to set stronger standards to ensure more patients get help with bills they can’t afford. This year, North Carolina also won approval from the Biden administration to withhold federal funding from hospitals in the state unless they agreed to expand financial assistance. In Georgia, where state government is entirely in Republican control, officials have been discussing new measures to get hospitals to provide more assistance to patients. “When we talk about hospitals putting profits over patients, we get lots of nodding in the legislature from Democrats and Republicans,” said Liz Coyle, executive director of Georgia Watch, a consumer advocacy nonprofit. Many advocates caution, however, that state efforts to bolster patient protections will be critically undermined if the Trump administration cuts federal funding for health insurance programs such as Medicaid and the insurance marketplaces established through the Affordable Care Act. Trump and congressional Republicans have signaled their intent to roll back federal subsidies passed under Biden that make health plans purchased on ACA marketplaces more affordable. That could hike annual premiums by hundreds or even thousands of dollars for many enrollees, according to estimates by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a think tank. And during Trump’s first term, he backed efforts in Republican-led states to restrict enrollment in their Medicaid safety net programs through rules that would require people to work in order to receive benefits. GOP state leaders in Idaho, Louisiana, and other states have expressed a desire to renew such efforts. “That’s all a recipe for more medical debt,” said Stahl, of Undue Medical Debt. Jessica Altman, who heads the Covered California insurance marketplace, warned that federal cuts will imperil initiatives in her state that have limited copays and deductibles and curtailed debt for many state residents. “States like California that have invested in critical affordable programs for our residents will face tough decisions,” she said. ©2024 KFF Health News. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.