Aviva India launches AI-powered chatbot
New Delhi, June 26: Aviva Life Insurance on Tuesday launched a chatbot named "ALISHA" in partnership with Findability Sciences -- a cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions company.
The chatbot is powered by IBM Watson's Conversation application programming interface (API) and fulfils Aviva's objective of providing meaningful insurance guidance anytime, anywhere.
"ALISHA is Aviva's answer to the needs of today's customers who desire to get in touch with us anytime, anywhere. Our one of a kind chatbot serves as an impartial advisor," Anjali Malhotra, Chief Customer, Marketing and Digital Officer, Aviva Life Insurance, said in a statement.
The chatbot, also called Aviva Life Insurance Self Help Assistant, is among India's first few Natural Language Processor (NLP)-powered Conversational Computing Solutions.
It is able to interpret customers' questions and direct the flow of the conversation to guide and assist them, much like the way people interact and respond.
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MP: 7-year-old girl raped and murdered; minor relative detained
Barwani (MP), Jan 28 (PTI) Police on Wednesday detained a 17-year-old relative of a seven-year-old girl in Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh for allegedly raping her and killing her by throwing her into a canal, a police official said.
Superintendent of Police Jagdish Dawar told reporters that the body of the child was recovered from the Indira Sagar Canal on January 26, following information from residents of a village in the Rajpur police station area of the district.
He said the post-mortem report concluded severe injuries to the girl’s private parts and attributed her death to drowning.
Dawar said a 17-year-old boy, a close relative of the girl, has been detained in connection with the rape-murder.
The teenager told the police that he kidnapped the girl from her home on the night of January 25 while her family members were asleep, took her to a nearby canal and raped her, according to the official.
When the girl started screaming during the sexual assault, the minor boy allegedly threw her into the canal, with the intention of killing her. The child drowned in the water body, the official said.
The detained minor will be produced in a juvenile court.
A case has been registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and an investigation is underway, he added.
