 My name is Dennis. I am in the midst of building this intelligent agent that can set up meetings and me and my 60 propeller head friends have spent the last almost two and a half years in the basement trying to pull that off Amy Ingram, and I'm sure you figured out by now what her initials are AI She's this intelligent agent that exists in dialogue only not a nap not an extension Not a website not a web service not a tangle me doodle me would have you And I want to meet up for coffee come early April when you're in Manhattan You shoot me an email say hey Dennis you got time to meet up for a cup of coffee. My response will be Absolutely love to I have CC then Amy so you can help put something on my calendar come first week of April And then Amy will remove me from the conversation start to have this very Human-like negotiation with you trying to figure out exactly when do you arrive when on Wednesday can we meet? Can you get to 25 Broadway and upon conclusion send us both an invite? Something was essentially so similar to that of having hired a human personal assistant that you wouldn't really know unless I've told you That this is a machine and probably you don't even care who's all you wanted was really just a cup of coffee with Dennis But I think the very first thing you figure out when you want machines to speak to humans is that humans are fucking crazy We're back on the fifth. Should we just do it then? Why don't we just do it now? We'll do it quick now. It's our Christmas party. We'll do it quickly Forget you quickly And here's a good set of anecdotes We looked at all of the meetings that we set up and 11% wrote Amy back saying thank you very much Why I think I've come to conclude Not to make Amy happy, but to make us happy I think I end up being a better human by treating her as a human