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 🤖

So we’re just… talking to software now?

ElevenLabs has been the go-to for voice for a while. Now they've turned that expertise into agents that actually get things done. You set one up, it talks like a real person, listens, responds, and helps handle the task — support calls, bookings, whatever the job is. Not a demo, not a "press 1 for sales" situation. It's ready to deploy. Feels like one of those shifts where the interface quietly changes. Less typing, less clicking, more just saying what needs to happen and letting it play out.