A.I. Startups Building Bots For Businesses

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.

Talla

[110010001000]

Talla. Slack. HipChat. You need an ironic beard to work at these places.

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[freeze128]

It's got to be better than working at Gamalon. That Desslok guy is a psychopath!

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[Anonymous Coward]

Nah, it's probably an allergy to buzzword-frosted overhyped bullshit.

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[110010001000]

No, its because I can't grow a beard.

Unemployed AIs

[penguinoid]

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

But i'm a programmer

[fluffernutter]

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

The goalposts were moved over time

[dbIII]

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.

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[jbengt]

The headline made me think somebody's making intelligent robots for industry, which might be interesting, then all it is is stupid chatbots.

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[blue9steel]

A sophisticated chatbot could make huge swaths of employees redundant, I wouldn't be quite so dismissive.

Intelligent HR?

[braindrainbahrain]

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.