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Re:AI-Powered Meeting Scheduler X.ai Raises $9.2M Series A by xerophyte12932 on Monday January 12, 2015 @02:52AM (#8872871)
Well the scheduling program works as your PA, and is expected to deal with other humans who want to schedule meetings with you. So not only does it have to understand their correspondence, it also has to negotiate with them. This requires NLP
Re:AI-Powered Meeting Scheduler X.ai Raises $9.2M Series A by graycat on Monday January 12, 2015 @10:20AM (#8874261)
I can't agree. In short, the communications can be done with forms, on a smartphone, Web site, or similar.
Re:AI-Powered Meeting Scheduler X.ai Raises $9.2M Series A by xerophyte12932 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @12:00AM (#8878243)
As someone else mentioned, that would require the other party to click a link and be directed to some webpage for said form. I agree, that's not too much of a hassle and in my instances can be far more effective than setting up a meeting on email (for example if it displays the free slots of all involved parties like doodle.com), but that's what x.ai is offering: letting people scedule the way they already do