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December 17, 2019 04:50 pm

Marissa Mayer's New Project is a Suite of Timesaving Apps

The Google and Yahoo vet shares a few cryptic details about her new foray into the productivity space with Lumi Labs. From a report: Mayer remains cryptic about the specific types of apps Lumi has under development, and the time frame for their launch. But she will say that Lumi stands to benefit from the kinds of AI breakthroughs that Silicon Valley researchers are making in areas such as teaching cars to drive themselves. This kind of work, she says, is immediately useful for the tools Lumi is devising to automate activities "so mundane and so time-consuming that a lot of people [choose not to] do them." For instance, the company is applying machine learning to certain photo-related tasks such as figuring out whether a particular image "is blurry, whether it's well lit, whether it's one that someone is likely to want to share based on the history of photos they shared in the past." If Lumi's apps take off, it won't be through the company's use of AI alone. "We want our products to be thoughtful, to feel nice when they're used," explains Mayer, who was once famous for zealously guarding Google's search engine against complication and clutter. She admits that she misses the days when the products she launched reached hundreds of millions of people. But with Lumi, "the hope is to be able to have that kind of impact and scale at some point," she says. "That's certainly what we will be building for."

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