Mariya Yao on Muck Rack

Mariya Yao

San Francisco
As seen in: TOPBOTS, Medium, Forbes, VentureBeat, Business 2 Community, Smashing Magazine, Benzinga, CIO, InfoWorld, Analytics Insight, UX Collective and
Covers:  artificial intelligence, AI, machine learning, deep learning, data science, big data, IoT, NLP, natural language processing, bots, chatbots, bot, chatbot, enterprise, strategy, leadership, executives
Doesn't Cover: Donald Trump :P
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Interview

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Please contact me formally here: topbots.com/contact

What's your favorite social network?

Snapchat, the new Twitter. Follow me at username @chatbots to hear me sing popular songs re-written with creative lyrics about bots and AI.

When's the best time to pitch you?

When you've got an irresistible secret to share!

What's the best pitch you ever got?

Directed to a friend/not me, but still an incredible pitch: "I can use neural network technology to turn your dead boyfriend into a chatbot"

What's your favorite drink?

Homemade kombucha infused with lemon and ginger

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

These days it's quite vogue to try to keep up with the flood of AI research papers published daily on http://arxiv.org

What's the most common misperception about your beat?

The word "chatbot" is still being defined. Some say bots that chat give terrible user experiences. Others say they're the future. We'll see.
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