A.I. Startups Building Bots For Businesses (xconomy.com)

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A.I. Startups Building Bots For Businesses (xconomy.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 21, 2016 @12:47PM from the robot-assistant-overlords dept.

gthuang88 writes: Virtual digital assistants are gaining popularity with the rise of Siri, Google Now, and Facebook's M service. Now startups are using related artificial intelligence techniques to solve business problems. Talla is building an interactive bot on Slack and HipChat for handling workflows in recruiting and human resources. The software uses natural language processing, word vectors, and some deep learning. Other startups, such as Gamalon, DataRobot, and Sentenai, are focused on probabilistic programming, data science, and machine learning for the Internet of things. Working with private data sets and business apps could help these startups avoid competing with the big players, at least for now.

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Talla by 110010001000 · 2016-01-21 12:47 · Score: 2

Talla. Slack. HipChat. You need an ironic beard to work at these places.
1. Re:Talla by freeze128 · 2016-01-21 13:10 · Score: 2
  
  It's got to be better than working at Gamalon. That Desslok guy is a psychopath!
2. Re:Talla by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-21 13:29 · Score: 0
  
  Sounds like jealousy to me. What's wrong? Kids these days are paid too much with excessively flexible work schedules?
3. Re:Talla by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-21 17:46 · Score: 1
  
  Nah, it's probably an allergy to buzzword-frosted overhyped bullshit.
4. Re:Talla by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-21 18:27 · Score: 0
  
  What, you take some joy out of the slow destruction vast swaths of our economy through ignorance and bad investments?
5. Re:Talla by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-21 23:41 · Score: 0
  
  You don't want to see the triumph of communism?
6. Re:Talla by 110010001000 · 2016-01-22 00:46 · Score: 2
  
  No, its because I can't grow a beard.
7. Re:Talla by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-22 19:41 · Score: 0
  
  with excessively flexible work schedules?
  hahahahahahahahahahaha
Al? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-21 12:52 · Score: 0

Who is this Al guy you're always talking about? Is he a friend of this Ben Gozzi guy that's always in the news?
Unemployed AIs by penguinoid · 2016-01-21 13:18 · Score: 1

It's probably just the recently unemployed AIs from Ashley Madison applying for new positions.

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Where are the sexbots? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-21 13:21 · Score: 0

I was promised sex bots for the future, where the hell are they? It's 2016!
But i'm a programmer by fluffernutter · 2016-01-21 16:26 · Score: 1

That's it. My next resume is just going to read:

$this_person + $your_busuness = $WIN
if ($WIN) then
$company_dollars = $company_dollars + 1000000000000
end

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1. Re: But i'm a programmer by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-21 16:56 · Score: 0
  
  That is a horribly written program.
2. Re: But i'm a programmer by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-21 17:02 · Score: 0
  
  Horribly even if you imagine that it's not PHP
3. Re: But i'm a programmer by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-22 06:17 · Score: 0
  
  Whoosh. It's not PHP. Woooooooshaaaaaa
They used to call him by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-21 16:50 · Score: 0

Clippy.
What makes Siri great? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-21 17:58 · Score: 0

Seriously, people keep comparing "cutting edge" A.I. against Siri. Siri's just not that smart.
Siri certainly doesn't have a great ability to interpret user's speech. e.g.: "How do I (get|drive|cycle|walk) to ", assuming she even figures out that should be on the same continent as you, will always open Navigation with a driving route.
And something common in young people... "X O X O X O X" gets transcribed as "socks socks socks socks". Go figure!
Yes. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-21 21:29 · Score: 0

Soon their recruitment bot will recruit my jobseeking bots.
1. Re:Yes. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-21 23:46 · Score: 0
  
  Are they fluent in Bocce?
The goalposts were moved over time by dbIII · 2016-01-21 22:14 · Score: 1

Seriously, people keep comparing "cutting edge" A.I. against Siri. Siri's just not that smart.
Neither is anything.
"A.I." means lookup tables now just like "nanotechnology" ended up being little bits of powder in toothpaste.
1. Re:The goalposts were moved over time by jbengt · 2016-01-22 02:15 · Score: 1
  
  The headline made me think somebody's making intelligent robots for industry, which might be interesting, then all it is is stupid chatbots.
2. Re:The goalposts were moved over time by blue9steel · 2016-01-22 04:53 · Score: 1
  
  A sophisticated chatbot could make huge swaths of employees redundant, I wouldn't be quite so dismissive.
3. Re:The goalposts were moved over time by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-22 06:36 · Score: 0
  
  Think of chatbots for the help desk filter.
  "Is you computer on?"
  "Can you see ?"
  OK, let me refer you to my supervisor...
Intelligent HR? by braindrainbahrain · 2016-01-22 05:32 · Score: 2

The cynicism expressed in the title of my post not withstanding, if AI can replace all the HR drones out there, fantastic! On the other hand, I'll never get a job again.
Shaking head,,,,,,, by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-22 05:33 · Score: 0

Lync, autoattendant.. or something like thzat..
this is not new.. I am curious to understand why these companies cant develop their own robots.. its their tech, right..