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#32 x.ai: bring your own bot! Amy the personal assistant powered by artificial intelligence, Dennis Mortensen

<p>“Artificial intelligence will move software from being passive to active, the software will be expected to make decisions on our behalf.”</p> <p>Dennis counted he had scheduled 1,019 meetings in a year! With big data startups under his belt, he deployed artificial intelligence techniques to create Amy, a virtual assistant and is on a mission to harness the power of AI to increase human potential. Hundreds of thousands of meetings have been scheduled automatically and it’s raised of $40m of Venture Capital investment. In this episode, he divulges the technology underpinning Amy,  jobs of the future, and the the morals and ethics behind bots - from bad behaviour, empathy to personalities.</p>

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