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An intelligent assistant is fantastically useful. I sometimes pay $50/month (depending on how much work she does) and she is worth every penny. E.g., "Deepika,
by yummyfajitas 11y ago
An intelligent assistant is fantastically useful. I sometimes pay $50/month (depending on how much work she does) and she is worth every penny.
E.g., "Deepika, call up brokers and schedule me apartment viewings in $X location for $Y or less, schedule these appointments on monday evening back to back. Do the same for $Z location on tuesday evening."
Of course, Deepika (name changed a little) is actually a real girl; I can only afford her because her choice of birth country allows me to pay less than US minimum wage.
In my experience these robot assistance are not as smart as Deepika. Scheduling in particular is a use case designed to make the user feel important rather than actually save people time. Doodle ( http://doodle.com/ http://doodle.com/ ) substitutes UI for AI, but it works brilliantly. Every email bot I've been the victim of just fobs work off from the user to their counterparty.
- TimothyGee 11y agoHow did you find Deepika?
- dsr_ 11y agoI'm not the OP -- the term to google is VA, virtual assistant. It is, currently, something of a boom industry. One of my friends does it: marywuva.com
- yummyfajitas 11y agoShe's a former coworker. Sometimes I live in India.
- rmxt 11y agoI can't tell if "her choice of birth country" is supposed to be ironic, sarcastic, or some other sly form of commentary...
- pinko 11y agoI presume (hope!) Deepika is a "real woman", and not a "real girl". I'm not trying to scold, but it's worth pointing out that most men wouldn't want to be described as "boys", and the culture that makes it so easy to inadvertently describe ourselves as men and girls rather than men and women has something to do with why we have so few women in computing.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoWe use the same terminology in many fields with lots of women, so I doubt your hypothesis is true. If you image search "im a real boy" you'll also understand the reference I was making.