AI "Ava" from Film Ex Machina Can Schedule Your Meetings

The film studio A24 that created "Ex Machina" has teamed up with AI-powered personal assistant service x.ai so that the robotic main character "Ava." The robot can be cc'd at ava@x.ai when scheduling meetings. Brian Heater has worked at a number of tech pubs, including Engadget, Laptop, and PCMag (where he served as Senior Editor). Most recently, he was as the Managing Editor of TechTimes.com. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications.