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Re:Worker-in-the-Loop: A Retrospective on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:42PM (#21984570)
This is right on; but it is still difficult to pull off in practice. I expect that 5-10 years from now it will be somewhat standard/turnkey.
Re:Worker-in-the-Loop: A Retrospective on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:41PM (#21984563)
Appreciate it!
It depends on the use case and business model. At the end of the day, the question is can the business scale with good unit economics. Software, machine learning, etc.. are just potential levers. Reminder that no businesses have 100% gross margins, even SaaS companies cap out around 80-85% because they need to provide human support alongside their software.

Clara Labs (YC S14) is scaling Human-in-the-Loop and needs your help

We recently raised our Series A (https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/19/claraseriesa/) and we need your helping scaling Clara, a Human-in-the-Loop assistant that schedules meetings.We’ve paired machine learning with a distributed workforce to get our customers the best of both worlds: accuracy and speed. Learn more here:...

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Re:Measuring Quality in Conversational Interfaces on Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:08PM (#13496230)
Hi there. Co-founder of Clara and post author here. Happy to answer any questions people have about how we measure quality!

Join Clara Labs (YC S14) – Help Machines Cheat on the Turing Test

-What we're doing-Clara Labs is building the first artificially intelligent employee. For the past nine months, we've built a system that supplements machine intelligence with human contextual awareness to support our first task: scheduling meetings. Clara already handles complex email-based coordination and scheduling for executives, recruiters, and sales teams at companies like Stripe,...

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Join Clara Labs (YC S14) – Help Machines Cheat on the Turing Test

What we're doingClara Labs is building the first artificially intelligent employee. For the past nine months, we've built a system that supplements machine intelligence with human contextual awareness to support our first task: scheduling meetings. Clara already handles complex email-based coordination and scheduling for executives, recruiters, and sales teams at companies like Stripe,...

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