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Dennis Mortensen

8 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Dennis Mortensen · across every show →

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Dec 5, 2013
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Half of newspaper article views in 2012 originated from homepages
“About half of all the article views on any given day for any one of these properties were driven off the homepage or the section front page.”
Dennis Mortensen Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 1:49 Panel: Continuuity, Sailthru and Visual Revenue // Data Driven NYC #7 // June 2012
Nov 20, 2014 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dennis Mortensen had 1,019 meetings and 672 reschedules in 2012
“I did a 1019 meetings. And I had 672 reschedules.”
Dennis Mortensen Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 1:13 Dennis Mortensen and Marcos Jimenez, x.ai // Your AI-powered Virtual Assistant
Nov 20, 2014
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mortensen: 87 million US knowledge workers schedule 10 billion meetings annually
“So, there's eighty-seven million US knowledge workers today scheduling about ten billion something formal meetings every year, which is a problem you just can't solve with humans.”
Dennis Mortensen Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 24:21 Dennis Mortensen and Marcos Jimenez, x.ai // Your AI-powered Virtual Assistant
Jan 17, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
x.ai shifted meeting preference setup from conversational text to web UI
“We initially implemented it against the idea that you would set your preferences over the conversational UI. Like, ah, I really like meetings on Monday. I come in a little bit late. I need to leave early on Fridays. Got to pick up the kids. And a whole long id…”
Dennis Mortensen Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 10:33 5 Key Learnings About Intelligent Agents // Dennis Mortensen, x.ai (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 17, 2019 negative
Opinion
Voice commands are an inferior interface for adjusting TV volume
“Screaming to your telly that you wanted to kind of increase the volume is actually not a good UI. My remote is just way more powerful.”
Dennis Mortensen Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 9:26 5 Key Learnings About Intelligent Agents // Dennis Mortensen, x.ai (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 17, 2019 negative
Insight
Recruiting 30 engineers for a meeting-scheduling AI is extremely difficult
“You try to hire 30 engineers on the idea that they should schedule more meetings? That is fucking hard.”
Dennis Mortensen Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 3:27 5 Key Learnings About Intelligent Agents // Dennis Mortensen, x.ai (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 17, 2019
Insight
AI product designers must ensure low-accuracy predictions still provide value
“You need to design for a system where if you make a prediction, even if it is of low accuracy, you should make sure that it counts as some sort of value.”
Dennis Mortensen Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 14:51 5 Key Learnings About Intelligent Agents // Dennis Mortensen, x.ai (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 17, 2019
Disclosure
x.ai priced its agent under $200 to avoid human-salary expectations
“We priced it at 19, 39, 199, some price for where it doesn't even resemble a human being at, you know, 50 K cost in Manhattan.”
Dennis Mortensen Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 16:11 5 Key Learnings About Intelligent Agents // Dennis Mortensen, x.ai (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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