MEET YOUR ROBOT UNDERLING

摘要

Amy activates easily: You register online, give it calendar access, select how long meetings and calls should go, and then copy it on scheduling e-mails, a procedure I follow with all the bots. I deploy Amy while trying to plan a lunch, saying my personal assistant will handle the details. "Fine," my guest replies. "I'm copying in the lovely Hannah, who will take it from here!" Hannah, a human assistant, e-mails Amy with three times. Amy picks the one when I'm free and replies, "Once I confirm the location with Jason, I'll send out an invite." Easy! Amy's in beta, and her responses sometimes lag-the result, a spokesman tells me, of X.ai's staff doing a "rather massive data annotation" as they prepare to go to market. Once, when I e-mailed Amy at 9:36 p.m., she didn't write back until 8:17 the next morning. But hey, that's just like a real assistant.