The Data Science that Animates Amy - x.ai

Data science is at the core of Amy Ingram, our AI personal assistant, and Data Scientists make up a big part of our team. To animate Amy (and her twin brother Andrew), we are teaching her to understand scheduling related emails. Teaching machines to parse natural language alone is a daunting challenge (and represents an entire field, Natural Language Processing or NLP). But that's not the end of it, because humans are not very precise communicators, even at our best. As a result, teaching Amy to successfully negotiate meeting times and locations for our beta customers has required collecting large amounts of data and applying some of the most advanced Machine Learning in the academy, stretching it beyond its usual boundaries.