The Ledger
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Mortensen: x.ai has no backup plan to rely on human labor
“What we kind of set out to do is to kind of create a setting for where there is no plan B. There is no kind of backup plan, and I know SoftBank kind of, you know, shit their pants whenever I say that, but there is no plan B of, ah, perhaps we can just have hum…”
Jimenez: x.ai uses human AI trainers for QA and data annotation
“Humans right now are, they're not really taking over. They're not really acting as scheduling assistants. What they're acting as is What we call AI trainers. So they're sort of like overlooking what the machine is guessing, so they're doing a lot of, ah, you k…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Mortensen: x.ai features no user interface beyond email CC
“So there is no interface. There is no dropdown box. There is no set of possible times which you can click on. There's only Amy, which exists in dialogue as a CC.”
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…”
Jimenez: x.ai correctly identifies 70% of new meeting proposals
“And you can see that we basically, for about 70% of the times that this come in, we nail it, so we know this is a new meeting proposal.”