2016年9月14日

新闻分析:新的人工智能产品处理所有与业务相关的苦差事会议所以可怜的人类不需要。只有人类会有会议,遗憾的是。但是一些文书工作与组织和记录相关会议可能更好的人工智能机器被外包。等等,你可能会说。不是人工智能无人驾驶汽车等大型任务,自动交易和面部识别?一旦科学幻想的内容,可用人工智能正迅速成为普遍,甚至商品化。AI最终将发挥更大的作用在我们所做的一切,你触摸几乎肯定会做的第一个人工智能应用程序繁琐,相对较小的任务。在商业领域,这意味着帮助你与你的会议。本专栏的最后我会告诉你为什么商务会议AI模型是一个伟大的未来人类和计算机之间的伙伴关系。但是,首先,让我们看看新一代的会议使用AI的帮手。Clarke.ai一个 service called Clarke.ai actually dials into your conference call and takes notes on the meeting. The notes are prioritized for possible action items.And it's easy to set up. To make it happen, you simply sign up for the service, then copy the email address associated with "Clarke.ai" virtual assistant, called Claire (or optionally Cleary), on the meeting invitation.When the meeting time comes around, Claire will dial in using the phone number and PIN in the email. After the meeting, the software will send the meeting notes via email, or via Slack, Salesforce, the Trello project management platform or other online services.One downside is that if your conference call software requires meeting participants to say their name, Claire will choke and won't be allowed into the call.But still, if the conditions are right, Clark.ai can handle the drudgery of taking meeting notes, so you don't have to. Microsoft Genee Microsoft last month bought an AI scheduling tool called Genee. The Genee product and brand will be put out to pasture. But the meeting scheduling technology will be built into Microsoft's Office 365 productivity suite and possibly the company's Cortana virtual assistant.Genee as we know it from the public beta, was integrated with various email systems and calendar apps to schedule meetings. By simply copying the Genee email address on a meeting request, you activate the service.The app's natural language processing capability understands the message and uses decision-making algorithms to check everyone's calendars for shared availability, going back and forth with participants like a real human does to find and communicate the best available meeting times. Amy and Andrew from X.ai If Genee sounds familiar, you may have heard about Amy. A New York startup called x.ai offers an email-based AI service that also schedules meetings.The virtual assistant you interact with can be called Amy or Andrew at the user's choice. As with Genee, x.ai uses natural language processing and decision-making algorithms to arrange meetings.Once the meetings are set, they can be changed on the fly. Just send a note to Amy to "clear my calendar for the rest of the week" and Amy will reach out to everyone you had scheduled meetings with to reschedule for later.I've tried x.ai personally, and it works amazingly well. It works so well, in fact, that meeting participants need never know that Amy isn't real. Skejul Skejul is a beta AI organizing tool not just for business meetings, but for your personal schedules as well.The company boasts of a patent-pending Context Aware Predictive Computing platform that underlies the system. Instead of emailing back-and-forth with meeting participants, Skejul uses algorithms to find the best time for everyone your invitation list to meet. Aurora software, from Silicon Valley-based Stottler Henke, uses AI for "intelligent planning and scheduling. " Originally developed for NASA, the software is now used by Boeing and other major enterprises. Page 1 of 2