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Join Clara Labs (YC S14) – Help Machines Cheat on the Turing Test
1 points by akilian 4216 days ago
-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, ZenPayroll, Heroku, Mattermark, and AngelList.

-How we're doing it-

Our software distributes the most complex natural language processing questions to human contractors, while automating the parts of the work a machine can grapple with on its own. This human-machine combination works well, but also presents some interesting challenges:

1. Reliability: How do you architect a distributed human-machine system whose reliability must be very high?

2. Interaction: The foundational relationship between humans and AI is yet to be designed; how do you establish a virtual relationship that feels intimate and natural?

3. Operations: How do you build the infrastructure to manage a distributed workforce of thousands?

-Who we are-

We're a small team working from the Mission in San Francisco. We like productive debate, reading (especially about intelligence), and care deeply about creating truly great products.

-What we're looking for-

We care about authenticity, thoughtfulness, and work ethic. We're looking for early team members to help us build the core of the company - engineering, operations, design, sales, and support.

Interested in learning more? Send us a note at join@claralabs.com!