Special Edition of #AIEye - GBT Technologies Inc.
(OTCPink: $GOPHD) Talks about Costa Rica’s Technology Hub Advancing its #AI #Technology
Fortune
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Point Roberts WA, Vancouver BC – August 15,
2019 – Investorideas.com (www.investorideas.com), a global investor news source
covering Artificial Intelligence (AI)
brings you a special edition of The AI Eye
- watching stock news, deal tracker
and advancements in artificial intelligence- featuring exclusive Q&A
interviews with Dr. Danny Rittman, CTO of GBT Technologies Inc. (OTC
PINK: GOPHD) and Salomon Ocon, CEO of
GBT, Costa Rica.
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Q&A
Interviews
Dr.
Rittman, CTO
Q:
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Danny,
your company just announced that it is now testing the Avant! AI Virtual
Agent through GBT Technologies, S.A., a Costa Rica company. Can you explain to
investors and readers that aren’t familiar with your company, what Avant!
AI is, the current status, and what you hope to achieve with this new phase of
development?
A: Dr. Rittman, CTO
Avant!
AI is an Artificial Intelligence system, neural network-based, that is targeted
to manage and supervise Gopher’s technologies, although it can be deployed and
implemented in other systems as self-learning management layer.
Back
in 2018, as a courtesy to the public, we launched a question-answering
interface with Avant!, which is capable of answering general knowledge
questions whereby information is extracted from the Internet and additional
resources. Questions can be posted in natural language to Avant!, which unlike
traditional search engines, will synthesize and summarize the best available
information about a topic, rather than giving a list of sites.
Q:
Investorideas.com
You
mention an initial launch to familiarize the public with Avant! AI. What are
some of the more complex solutions that Avant! will be able to address in the
future?
A: Dr. Rittman, CTO
Avant!
can provide context to the vast volume of unstructured data in our world today,
enhancing human and machine capability. It can respond to highly complex
situations and quickly provide a wide range of potential responses and
recommendations which are backed by the evidence it has analyzed. Avant! is
based on advanced reasoning and learning systems. Avant! AI technologies
include deep learning and neural networks to “think” like a human would do.
We are now completing an Avant! branch to
perform as a multipurpose expert agent. Avant! learns data and is able to
perform as an expert in the domain. For example, Avant! can be fed medicine
knowledge and then is able to identify symptoms and provide a diagnostic.
Another example is to perform as a customer service agent for businesses. Due
to recent interest in Avant! learning and training capabilities, we are researching
another implementation of its features which is images analytics. Avant! could
potentially analyze X-Ray, ultrasound and other formats of medical imaging and
will be able to point to potential issues for further doctor’s examination.
The
system was developed by our research team and now will be transferred to, and
tested by, GBT Costa Rica.
Q: Investorideas.com
I
had read that one of Costa Rica’s biggest assets is its technology expertise
and it is becoming a thriving technology hub. Can you talk about that and what
you are seeing first-hand? In the past
decade we can witness growing Hi-Tech hardware and software developments in Costa
Rica.
A:
Dr. Rittman, CTO
Costa
Rica has a strong developer community, similar to what exists in the Silicon
Valley. From meetups to hackathons, and through programs such as MenTe that are
designed to involve women in science and technology, Costa Rica’s vibrant and
innovative software culture has attracted many companies eager to establish
development centers in the country.
GBT
Technologies Costa Rica has proven expert technical skills when it comes to
software development in a wide variety of domains while working with the Gopher
team. We are glad to share with the GBT Costa Rica team our technology in all
domains and are looking forward to successful cooperation. I believe that this
mutual collaboration will benefit both companies for years to come.
Q: Investorideas.com
A:
Dr. Rittman, CTO
The
list of companies that choose to nearshore in Costa Rica continues to grow.
Tech giants such as IBM, HP and Intel have all established offices there.
Clients such as Arrow Electronics, Finish Line and NBC have also leveraged
development teams in Costa Rica. Witnessing major Hi Tech leaders opening
R&D sites in Costa Rica strengthened our decision to join the movement and
open our own R&D center there. In fact, some of these companies may well
become our customers or partners down the road.
The
collaboration with GBT Technologies benefits us by working with a team of
experts in the software and hardware domains. Investing in Costa Rica R&D
capabilities will enable the research and development of our sophisticated
milestones to be faster and of higher quality. We are looking forward to
developments in Costa Rica in our future domains, including autonomous
machines, EDA, IoT, wireless mesh networking and mobile technologies.
Salomon
Ocon, CEO of GBT, Costa Rica.
Q:
Investorideas.com
Can you discuss the recent transaction
and how you see synergies with the two companies rolling out the current
technology pipeline?
A: Salomon Ocon, CEO of GBT, Costa Rica.
I’m very excited to seize this
opportunity to collaborate further together with GBT Technologies and get
really in depth, as we have had the chance to be in “talks” and technology
review for more than a year now. GBT Technologies Costa Rica started seeing
potential synergies between the Companies in August 2018, then by meeting again
at Gopher’s participation from its Chairman, CTO and 2 consultants in the Futurist
Conference in Canada.
We take pride in the work we’ve done in a very short span. GBT Costa Rica has
experience in building fintech applications for banks, high performance
exchange platforms, blockchain based-digital asset wallets and smart contracts,
world class aggregation, and e-commerce platforms. GBT Costa Rica built the
Avant! AI mobile applications (iOS and Android) for Gopher.
Both companies will be working on plans to potentially expand our geographic
coverage of our financial services. GBT USA currently addresses the United
States market through its ECS Prepaid terminals and software in roughly
9,000 retail locations. Working with GBT Costa Rica, GBT Technologies is
planning to enhance its offerings and potentially address new growing vertical
and geographic markets and products, including potentially via blockchain technology.
We also look forward to the possibility for our technology center to build on
GBT USA’s wireless mesh network technology using GBT Costa Rica software
development abilities. The companies intend as business partners to pursue new
markets such as government (both civilian and military); emergency services;
air and space-based systems for unmanned vehicles including drones, aircraft
and LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites, which in itself could potentially form a
high-performance global wireless mesh network.
GBT Technologies Costa Rica can
give GBT USA access to broader technologies and markets, especially in Latin
America and a development team to enhance GBT USA own resources.
Q:
Investorideas.com
In 2018, Costa Rica exported more than
US$3.3 billion in technology, information, and communication which was
equivalent to approximately 5.8% of GDP. Can you discuss how your current
tech team has evolved and their expertise and how you see Costa Rica as a base for
really accelerating the future of this company?
A: Salomon Ocon, CEO of GBT, Costa Rica.
Despite being a small country, Costa Rica
has specialized over the last decade in the creation of human talent with high
education levels in different areas including finance, with deep-rooted values of excellence, commitment and a customer centric approach
in business. These are just a fraction of what GBT Costa Rica Technologies’
workforce offers.
Great strides have been made towards the specialization of human capital to
sustain and create an ideal climate for the development of services with high
quality standards. This has attracted multinational companies who have
established satellite offices here – such as Intel, Microsoft, Sykes and
Amazon. Costa Rica is a strategic location for 24% of the Fortune 100
companies. The country’s regulatory frame, its laws and opportunities
for foreign companies to settle down are among the very best in the world.
The main advantages and benefits of Costa
Rica as an operational headquarters are:
Customized Technical Training: In order to improve its human capital skills,
Government and private institutions have created customized educational
programs to fit the needs of the industry, both local and international.
Tax incentives: The most attractive tax incentives package in Latin
America, offering robust infrastructure. GBT has been approved by the
Costa Rican Government to operate in a free – Tax Zone for 10 years.
Concentration of Technology Talent: While Costa Rica isn’t
geographically expansive, it boasts a great number of Information Technology
professionals. Near 27,000 Costa Ricans work for companies operating in the
U.S. market. Our human talent provides access to manpower short in supply
where every qualified professional is welcome regardless of cultural
background, race and gender. The country has a strong developer community,
its standards comply even with those of Silicon Valley and other tech hubs
through the pursuit of certifications such as PMP, Six Sigma, ITL and ISOs.
PREFERENTIAL ACCESS TO THE WORLD: 4 FTAs (Free Trade Agreements) signed
which provide access to 57 trade partners, including the European Union (27),
the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, China, Peru and Singapore
among others.
Epicenter for Nearshore Software Development: The business culture
emerges with open communication and ready collaboration. In addition, ticos
(what we call the people of Costa Rica) have an incredible work ethic and
passion for learning new technologies. As a result, an increasing
number of companies including Amazon, Citibank and Procter & Gamble are
choosing Costa Rica for their strategic, nearshore settings – taking advantage
of a highly educated workforce and business-optimized environment.
ACCESS: There are more than 1,800 flights from the international
locations to Costa Rica monthly. USA (+730 Flights), Europe (80 Flights), Other
countries (990 Flights)
Infrastructure: Costa Rica boasts 100% telecom infrastructure
redundancy.
All of the above has prepped our team with first hand, top of the world
experience in their field and will add immeasurable amounts of value to any
organization.
Q:
Investorideas.com
In the company’s most recent news
you stated "We are in the testing phase of our intelligent agent, and
expect an exciting future for our Avant! Virtual Agent application."
Can you expand on this and talk about your process for testing and what that
will look like over the next 6-12 months?
A: Salomon Ocon, CEO of GBT, Costa Rica.
Gopher Protocol was recently renamed to,
GBT Technologies Inc. .
GBT Technologies Inc. has moved all of
its AVANT! AI and wireless mesh networking development to us here at GBT Costa
Rica, where we have prioritized developing the AVANT! AI imaging
recognition abilities. Just to get a flavor of where
we’re taking it now: On Friday Danny (GBT USA) made a
presentation about the AVANT! AI to the medical team @ UC San Diego School of
Medicine .... The medical team wants to be able to have early diagnosis of
ultrasound findings and guidance for doctors. That's exactly what we at GBT Costa
Rica have been planning for Avant!
Even now, Avant can do image analysis and point to
suspicious findings that doctors will examine. There is currently a major
medical problem that the images are unclear, and doctors often find it
difficult to detect suspicious findings. In a deep image analysis which is a
huge amount of information, Avant! With GBT Costa Rica development will
be able to point out areas for further examination and the doctors will
continue from there!!!
About
GBT Technologies Inc. (formerly Gopher
Protocol, Inc.)
GBT Technologies Inc. (OTC PINK: GOPHD)
(“GBT”) (http://gopherprotocol.com/) is a development-stage company which
considers itself a native IoT creator, developing Internet of Things (IoT) and
Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled mobile technology platforms. GBT has a portfolio of Intellectual Property
that, when commercialized, will include smart microchips, mobile and security
applications and protocols, and supporting cloud software. GBT’s system envisions the creation of a
global mesh network. The core of the
system will be its advanced microchip technology that can be installed in any
mobile or fixed device worldwide. GBT envisions this system as a low-cost,
secure, private mesh network between any enabled devices, providing shared
processing, advanced mobile database management/sharing and enhanced mobile
features as an alternative to traditional carrier services.
About GBT TECHNOLOGIES, S.A
GBT Technologies, S.A., a private Costa
Rican corporation (GBT - http://gbttechnologies.com/) is a development-stage
company in the business of the strategic management of BPO (Business Process
Outsourcing) digital communications processing for enterprises and startups;
distributed ledger technology development, AI development and fintech software
development and applications. https://aggregator.genesisexchange.io/
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