AI Assistant Summit San Francisco

Rushin Shah left his post as a senior machine learning manager on Apple’s virtual assistant to join Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning team, where he’ll be working on natural language and dialog understanding.

Machine learning has made huge advances in many applications including natural language processing, computer vision and recommendation systems by capturing complex input/output relationships using highly flexible models.

Amy isn’t a real person but a software agent that exists somewhere in the cloud & communicates with your contacts and e-mail, helping set up meetings and appointments. The software is being developed by x.ai, which hopes to create something that seems virtually indistinguishable from a real human.

Blending innovative technology with human expertise, we team up with industry leaders to promote access to transformative educational experiences for all students. We are a team of people who understand the tremendous value of learning and care deeply about the education of future generations.

A generation of today’s children will live in the world of AI. They will have Personal AIs just like we had personal computers, and AI assistants will be their main interface to tech. Meet MyBuddy.ai: voice assistant that makes screen time productive for kids and regret-free for parents. A child talks with the playful robot to make calls, send messages, follow a schedule, watch videos & more.

Alex’s core value is to up the efficiency game. One of the pressing reasons why top talent give up on a company is because of the endless wait in the pipeline. Addressing this issue mainly, Alex helps the recruiter to coordinate interviews.

Modern bots try to trick users into interacting with them as if they’re human in other ways: by bantering and using humor, speaking (or writing) conversationally, and learning to parse free-form questions and answers. “This creates a perception that if you say anything to this bot, it should respond to it,” said Nikhil Mane, Autodesk.

Woebot, the world's first mental health chatbot, backed by scientific research. Woebot is an accessible, personalized, and affordable treatment option for the millions of people suffering from mood-based mental illness, such as depression and anxiety disorders. As part of the launch, the company also published a study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine

There’s nothing definitively wrong with technology that interacts with emotions. The question is whether they can be shaped to serve, enhance and entertain, rather than exploit. And given that survey respondents of all ages are rightfully wary, it’s a question that the people should be involved in answering.

You’ve probably seen lots of robots here on TechCrunch. You’ve seen Atlas, the robot that can walk just like a human. You’ve seen Small Dog, the quadruped bot that can scale hills and climb stairs. But have you ever seen a robot that just makes you say “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwww”? Meet Mira — an adorable little mini-bot built by Pixar technical director Alonso Martinez with the help of Aaron Nathan