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Life with My Robot Secretary

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Re: Life with My Robot Secretary

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Post by cfontes »

That sound really interesting, is it English only? Can it handle tasks scheduling as well? What I mean by that is:

"Clara, find me a time to do xxx next week"

That integrated with Google inbox (the remind me later feature) would be great!

P.S: I found it kind of expensive, isn't it?

Re: Life with My Robot Secretary

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Post by monkmartinez »

This looks awesome. I use reminders in Inbox with reckless abandon, love them. Please tell me there is an open source version of this or that I am missing something in gmail to do this. Pretty please.

That said: There is no way I am spending $49 a month on this. There is a point where you have to analyze how many $5/$10/$15 dollar a month subscriptions you have. Pretty soon it can escalate to the cost of a monthly vehicle payment or the hiring of a part-time employee. Furthermore, can get a human to do this for $10 an hour or so using a virtual assistant?

If I was super-crazy-busy and making ridiculous $$$, sure. But as a cash flow restricted mortal with a mortgage a full time job and a side project... $49 in addition to the myriad of services/equipment I require (accounting, marketing, materials, equipment maintenance, etc) is not going to happen.

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Post by IgorPartola »

monkmartinez wrote: post #4

This looks awesome. I use reminders in Inbox with reckless abandon, love them. Please tell me there is an open source version of this or that I am missing something in gmail to do this. Pretty please. That said: There is no way I am spending $49 a month on this. There is a point where you have to analyze how many $5/$10/$15 dollar a month subscriptions you have. Pretty soon it can escalate to the cost of a monthly ve…

Exactly what I was thinking. If you read the end of TFA you'll see that the main benefit here is that they provide a human force to curate it, etc. That means that even if they open sourced it today it won't do you and me any good without the human element. Then again, if there is an OSS version of this that someone knows of, please do point it out.

Having said that the price is too high for me personally. I'd consider $5/month. Also since I schedule way fewer meetings than the author of TFA, I would need longer than a month to try it out.

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Post by pnathan »

monkmartinez wrote: post #4

This looks awesome. I use reminders in Inbox with reckless abandon, love them. Please tell me there is an open source version of this or that I am missing something in gmail to do this. Pretty please. That said: There is no way I am spending $49 a month on this. There is a point where you have to analyze how many $5/$10/$15 dollar a month subscriptions you have. Pretty soon it can escalate to the cost of a monthly ve…

> There is no way I am spending $49 a month on this.

You're not the target market then. For that matter, neither am I. The target market is people who need an admin assistant, but can't pay the five figures per year yet.

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Post by mcdoug »

monkmartinez wrote: post #4

This looks awesome. I use reminders in Inbox with reckless abandon, love them. Please tell me there is an open source version of this or that I am missing something in gmail to do this. Pretty please. That said: There is no way I am spending $49 a month on this. There is a point where you have to analyze how many $5/$10/$15 dollar a month subscriptions you have. Pretty soon it can escalate to the cost of a monthly ve…

Well there's x.ai as documented here https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-amy-your-personal-ai-ass.... It's even using the same reference to Her in the title graphic.

There's also https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cubic-your-personal-ai-wi....

And finally there's Facebook M.

Re: Life with My Robot Secretary

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Post by IgorPartola »

HarrietJones wrote: post #7

So there used to be a thing called Sandy that did the same sort of thing. http://lifehacker.com/321644/sandys-your-personal-assistant-...

I used that! The best thing was that it was free IIRC. Also, does anyone else find it weird that all these personal assistants are created with a female persona? Just wondering if there is a broader thing here.
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