Increase your productivity with ROBOTS! 🤖

Today’s email is by Sam DeBrule, co-founder of Journal, and voice of the Machine Learnings newsletter.

Artificial Intelligence: the buzziest of tech buzzwords.

We’re decades away from developing a superhuman artificial intelligence. Luckily, a handful of startups are already hard at work using machine learning (ML) techniques to build products that automate work-related tasks for you.

Here are a few ML-enabled tools that will make you more effective at work today:

• Grammarly fixes botched sentences when writing important emails
• Cassette lets you be present by transcribing interviews & meetings
• X.ai is like your own personal assistant for scheduling meetings
• Textio flags and reduces biased language in job descriptions
• Troops alerts your sales team when leads are slipping

For more ML-enabled business tools, check out Sam's Machine Learning at Work collection on Product Hunt.

MACHINE LEARNING AT WORK 🤖

We asked 34 customers what Viktor does for them. Not one said chatbot.

They kept using words like colleague, coworker, team member. One CEO called it the glue holding their e-commerce business together, which is a lot, but also… you see why. It lives in Slack and plugs into 3,000+ tools, so instead of jumping between tabs, you just ask for the thing. Pull Stripe against HubSpot, check Sentry alerts, spin up a campaign brief, build a landing page, send a report upstairs. It all happens there.

It has already hit top 5 on Product Hunt with 130 comments, is SOC 2 certified, and your data does not train models.

One user said it was the first time AI felt like a real coworker, which is either exciting or slightly concerning depending on your week.