Show HN: We did Google Duplex for businesses in 6 months with a team of 3

by bloodcarter • 8 years ago

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bloodcarter10• 8 years ago

Hi Vlad Chernyshov, CTO of Dasha.AI here. Just wanted to show you Dasha.AI, an AI for Accomplishing Real-World Business Tasks Over the Phone. We built it with the team of 3 in 6 months. It's like Google Duplex, but for Businesses. Now you can automate virtually any process in your business starting $0.1 per conversation. Currently we support English and Russian. Anyone interested in getting in touch, drop me a line at vlad@dasha.ai.

I hope you'll enjoy the demo calls: https://dasha.ai/en/!

P.S. Don't be afraid of giants. We have smart people, but they are not smarter than you.

ubershmekel• 8 years ago

Got demos in English?

bloodcarter10• 8 years ago

We can do a demo in English if there is a potential customer (for free, we need something to show off as a use case). If you're interested, drop me a line at vlad@dasha.ai.

ibdf• 8 years ago

Everything in English but demos. Seems like you need a Dasha AI to help you create English demos.

bloodcarter10• 8 years ago

Thanks for pointing this out! We're a small team , and we have only a real customers demo. We can't waste time creating some imaginery use case. If you're a customer or know somebody who is , let us know.

articlespub• 8 years ago

Please add English to the demo :)

saverio-murgia• 8 years ago

Hi! Is there any technological limit that prevents you to expand it to other languages? I would be particularly interested in Italian and French.

bloodcarter10• 8 years ago

Hi, nothing prevents it. We are releasing a tool for building your own AI for your own business processes later this year that will support your languages. Use a form on the website to be notified when we launch it or drop me a line at vlad@dasha.ai

andresalo• 8 years ago

Can't find the form on the website. I've just sent you an email.

Eridrus2• 8 years ago

Fun fact, someone built Google Duplex for Pizza all the way back in 2009: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2009/12/order-pizza-iphone-app-l...

From what I could tell, they shut it down because they couldn't figure out a way to monetize it.

bloodcarter10• 8 years ago

Thanks for pointing this out, but I'm afraid you're missing the point: the tricky part is to pass Turing test in a sense that your interlocutor should think he or was talking to a human. If you can say for sure that you were taking to a bot, that's not what we or Google did.

Eridrus2• 8 years ago

That's probably relevant for your use case, but it's not really obvious that it is necessary for Google's demoed use case. As the article mentioned 90%+ of pizza shops were willing to take orders from their system, which is basically the main metric that matters for the calling on behalf of paying customers use case.

No argument that what you & Google have done is more challenging.

I am curious whether the media backlash against Google Duplex "tricking people" will impact your business. Whether this is a thing that real people will care about, or whether this is the media blowing things out of proportion.

In any case, I do find it more of a "Fun Fact" than anything really meaningful :)

dugluak• 8 years ago

wow that intro video - fire all human beings and hire us, we'll train robots for you!

bloodcarter10• 8 years ago

We just want to accelerate world's transition to robot workers.

vladholubiev• 8 years ago

I speak Russian and listened to the demos. IMO this AI is trained to be shockingly offensive (especially 2nd call). I feel compassion for the girl answering, she is scared AF. Voice, intonation, and attitude sound like from a debt collector.

P.S. Congrats to the team! This is amazing, just make it more friendly! ;)

bloodcarter10• 8 years ago

Hi Vlad! Thanks. This is for the first time I hear such an opinion :)

Show HN: We did Google Duplex for businesses in 6 months with a team of 3

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