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Soffer: Human-centric product management is an art, not data-driven science
“Product is not science. And product, in most cases, especially when it is human centric and highly driven on experiences, or based on experiences, it can, it can't be cautious of data driven.”
Soffer: ElliQ robot is built for social presence, not physical chores
“EleQ doesn't make coffee or clean your floor. Her robotic embodiment is only to serve as a presence. And then that is sharing time and space with you on a day-to-day basis. The robot's role is really to be something that isn't an app on a smartphone or somethi…”
Soffer: Empathy is a functional tool for product managers, not morality
“Product managers need empathy because they need to be able, just like that movie, Being John Malkovich, they need to enter the cognition of their user. They need to view the world in the eyes of their user, and that is not science.”
Soffer: Intuition Robotics is building an entirely nonexistent desktop robot category
“Nobody out there is Googling, I need a desktop social robot for my grandma. Nobody. It's a not, it's a non-existing category. We're creating it.”
Soffer: LLMs Alone Cannot Deliver Fully Contextualized Companion Care
“And in doing that, we've added dimensions that the semantic layer itself, even if you enrich its contextual capabilities, will not be able to do. Unless married with other technologies, which is what we're doing here.”
Soffer: Loosening ElliQ LLM constraints increased user engagement via natural conversations
“We've now gained enough confidence to remove two or three of these leashes and allow the LLM-based capabilities to have more face time with users in a more natural way. So we're seeing engagement go up from even more natural Predictable conversations, and then…”
Soffer: Robotics success requires cross-domain understanding of human habits and intent
“What intuition robotics is saying, for this to really succeed in the field with humans over time, there's a missing piece in the middle, and that's the heart and the brain of the machine. The part that doesn't care about, I can do this, or I can do that. The p…”
Soffer: Intuition Robotics has had companion tech in homes for three years
“And the experience we've gathered in actually being in people's homes for three years now that makes this a very rewarding and exciting place to work.”
Soffer: ElliQ is a goal-based agent pairing behavioral and generative AI
“LEQ is an agent that is not only based on gen AI and look at me, I can talk for hours. She is goal-based. There's a lot of behavioral AI alongside the generative AI, and this is where the company has gathered a lot of experience and working code that's differe…”