Deep learning is a field within machine learning which uses algorithms that contain many layers of processing and transformations. x.ai data scientist Adam Kleczewski created the above visualization by training a type of deep learning model called a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) on the scheduling related emails in our data base. A RNN makes predictions…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
What AlphaGo’s amazing victory doesn’t tell you about AI in 2016
AlphaGo’s recent defeat of champion Go player Lee Se-dol has spurred another flurry of articles about AI. Among these was an announcement that Luc Besson will be directing a pilot for a new TV series titled Artificial Intelligence. Bet you can’t guess the plot? Well, actually, you probably can: AI escapes the lab, goes AWOL,…
Jason Calacanis on x.ai and its AI-powered personal assistant, Amy Ingram: From “meh” to “wow” in 57 minutes
Jason talks to Dennis R. Mortensen about x.ai, humanizing our AI personal assistant, why AI won’t necessarily kill jobs, and the downside of being an entrepreneur in Denmark. Throughout the episode, Jason and Dennis set up a meeting with each other using Amy. After putting Amy to the task, Dennis checks out of the email…
Using Scala to Build an AI-Powered Personal Assistant: x.ai Engineers Tell All
x.ai makes an AI-powered personal assistant that schedules meetings for you. Amy Ingram (and her brother Andrew) have processed millions of scheduling related emails so far. The team building Amy is 60 people strong. Among them, 25 data scientists and software engineers created the Scala-based technology that allows Amy to understand meeting scheduling emails and…
How to teach a machine to understand us
We are fast moving from the app era to the era of the intelligent agent. Over the next half decade, we’ll witness the birth of hundreds if not thousands of autonomous intelligent agents. By definition, these agents complete entire jobs by themselves, which means they must learn to understand us and our objectives. Therein lies…
Artificial Intelligence Will Deliver Net Job Growth by the Next Presidential Election
The World Economic Forum released its report on the Future of Jobs earlier this week. We consider it good news. The gist: Artificial Intelligence is not the hydra-headed beast that demolishes jobs, as it tramples through the global economy. Nor is it akin to a targeted assault on white collar workers—finally making even educated workers…
How to talk to your Mom about AI
2015 has seen an explosion in funding, interest in, and new product development around Artificial Intelligence. Facebook delivered M, Amazon gave us Echo, and Google launched TensorFlow, its open source machine learning library. A whole host of startups have also emerged, including ours (x.ai), HyperScience, and Vicarious. There’s an interesting parallel to the web, circa…
“Amy, are you free for a pre-Christmas drink?”
We like to think we’re doing a good job of creating a user experience that feels like you are working with a human personal assistant (though a superlatively efficient one). I’ve mentioned that Amy has been invited to join meetings and that she’s often thanked. Indeed, not too long after we released the beta, we…
People Thank Machines in ~11% of all meetings
People love Amy! They love her ability to schedule meetings so much that they choose to share their feelings with the world: https://x.ai/lovenotes That is obviously wonderful and something we are very proud of, but what absolutely fascinates me is how they interact directly with Amy and the fact that we had to engineer and…
Cut Siri Some Slack. She Wasn’t Created To Do What We Think
“It’s f–ing idiotic. Siri is nearly useless” – Slack founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield I understand why people might not be as happy with Siri (or any one of the other personal assistants that comes pre-installed with our smart phones) as they had hoped for. I felt much like Stewart did when I got my…
Zirtual Announces Pausing on Operations
Today, a lot of busy executives woke up to find out that Zirtual paused operations and they are now without their reliable virtual assistant to help with the enormous amount of time consuming tasks. Scheduling meetings being one of them. We know the pain and have the solution! If you don’t know us, x.ai is…