In this episode of the Big Data Beard Podcast recorded at the Spark+AI Summit, we sit down with Ben and Andre from SAS to learn how they giving AI and ML technologies a voice.  We discuss the the basic technical process for approaching natural language processing project, use cases for these technologies like chatbots, and the implication this work has on the future of big data.  We are reminded that while SAS has been in the big data game before it was a game, they are actively evolving their technologies and approaches to supporting customer needs by embracing a variety of open-source technologies and frameworks.  Join the Big Data Beard as we talk with some of the best and brightest minds in conversational artificial intelligence.