Bio, Work & Ideas

Amit Desai

Conference affiliation: Roku

Amit Desai is credited with a Roku affiliation in a recorded talk on AI assistant behavior. The talk examines how confidence thresholds and the costs of different outcomes can guide an assistant’s choice to act, request confirmation, or decline a request.

1 conference talk

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Act, Confirm, or Stop? Smarter behavior for AI assistants, wearables & robots — Amit Desai, Roku

Amit Desai argues that assistants can improve user experience by choosing better behavior under uncertainty while keeping recognition accuracy unchanged. Using a simplified music-request example, he assigns costs to wrong actions, stopping, and confirmation, then optimizes confidence thresholds to minimize total user cost. He extends the reasoning to…

Amit Desai

References

ai.engineer/talks/Zd5b40Jbp_k-act-confirm-stop-smarter-behavior-ai-assistants ↗