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RNS Number : 3503M  Online Blockchain PLC  14 September 2023

News Release

 

September 14th, 2023

 

Online Blockchain plc: Update on AI Assistant Product

- New functionality and use cases for Synthia AI -

 

Online Blockchain plc, the London-listed incubator of technology applications,
announces the latest details and developments on Synthia, its AI whole-life
assistant.

 

Synthia, currently in early alpha testing, is powered by a variety of
cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) including some of the same
technologies used by Open AI's ChatGPT. It is designed to make life more
efficient, productive and easy for busy executives and is already helping
users arrange their communication channels into a single stream. The AI
assistant now has full SMS integration in addition to its voice and emailing
capabilities and can send and receive text messages on behalf of the user as
well as perform numerous information retrieval tasks.

 

Examples of features and tasks that Synthia AI can currently undertake
include:

 

·    Set up meetings, send calendar invites, obtain a list of events in
the diary and schedule tasks to be performed at a later time

·    Check information and deliver a host of research-based tasks

·    HTML/Web scraping - can retrieve and summarise the textual content of
a specified webpage and answer specific questions about it

·    Safe or Scam? - can perform a reputation check on a specified URL to
determine if it may potentially be a scam

·    PDF scraping - given a PDF document, can answer questions or perform
a task based on the text content for example providing a summary

·    YouTube video answers - given a YouTube video, can answer questions
or perform a task based on the subtitles such as writing a short user guide
document

·    Create images - with a given prompt can create an image
corresponding to the prompt's subject

·    Each person's assistant now has its own configurable settings and
unique phone number and email address. Users can name their assistant, set
their primary language and time zone, and set auto speak

·    Multi-language support

·    Send/receive SMS and voice calls as well as email a specified address
with a context-appropriate subject and body

 

 

 

The AI assistant utilises an innovative proprietary plugin system and has
access to a wide range of different APIs and services such as WolframAlpha and
Bing Web Search. In an improvement on ChatGPT, the AI assistant can
contextually understand tasks and choose which plugins to employ to obtain
information from the most appropriate source. It is then able to integrate
multiple responses and intelligently formulate them in a single chat window.
Synthia AI can answer various queries related to live information, general
knowledge, finance, people, places, books, popular culture and more;
everything from checking the weather in a given location to finding the best
restaurants and getting the spot price for gold.

Multi-language support has also been added and includes English, French,
Polish, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian and Portuguese. Synthia
automatically translates text/voice from one language into another so two
users speaking in different languages can seamlessly interact via their AI
assistants in their native tongues. In the latest alpha version, the team is
currently experimenting with enabling users to interact with their executive
assistant via verbal conversations. Utilising the latest cutting-edge AI
powered voice models from ElevenLabs, Synthia can answer back in a variety of
languages.

Anyone interested in testing Synthia AI assistant can join here:
https://synthia.cc/ (https://synthia.cc/)

 

Online Blockchain PLC enquiries: Clem Chambers (CEO) - clem@monaco.mc
(mailto:clem@monaco.mc)

Media enquiries: Francesca De Franco - francesca@onlineblockchain.io
(mailto:francesca@onlineblockchain.io)

 

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About OBC PLC

Online Blockchain PLC (LSE: OBC) is a UK-based incubator driving cutting-edge
research and development in internet and information-based technologies for
the next generation of customers. Established in 1999, OBC has remained at the
forefront of the internet evolution, incubating successful online games and
creating ADVFN, the leading global financial news platform for retail
investors, listed on the London Stock Exchange. Led by a visionary team with
over two decades of pioneering experience in technology, Online Blockchain
focuses on technical innovation in the blockchain and AI space. The company's
notable achievement includes the creation of Umbria Network, a widely
acclaimed cross-chain bridge for digital assets.

For more information, visit: https://www.onlineblockchain.io
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