Today’s guest, Dennis Mortensen, is a serial entrepreneur whose most recent venture (x.ai) focuses on teaching machines to schedule meetings. He shares with us what this challenging (and rewarding) journey looked like, and the valuable (and sometimes surprising) lessons he and his team learned. We also discuss giving empathy to machines, expectations, and how we can get more comfortable with imperfect progress.
Whether you’re building AI for self-driving cars or for scheduling meetings, it’s all about prediction! In this episode, we’re going to explore the complexity of teaching the human power of prediction to machines.
Key Points From This Episode:
Tweetables:“The whole umbrella of AI is really just one big prediction engine.” — @DennisMortensen “Language is not a solved science.” — @DennisMortensen “The expectation of a machine response is different to that of a human response to the same question.” — @DennisMortensen Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Dennis Mortensen on LinkedInBizzabo