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Mixus AI Agent Tool Includes Human Intervention
is a collaborative artificial intelligence platform that incorporate human participation to ... More help ensure accuracy of results.
In the world of artificial intelligence, when the technology spits out inaccurate information, instead of calling it what it is, a screw up, the industry invented a softer euphemism—hallucination. Those hallucinations have the potential of causing physical or financial harm, or at the least, a major embarrassment.
But a months-old startup called has added a very analog backstop to catching errors before they do any harm—the human brain. Indeed, its name is a portmanteau of mix and us, meaning blending artificial with human intelligence to help ensure accuracy.
The simple explanation is when a user makes an AI query, in addition to a AI-generated response also recommends people who have expertise, experience or knowledge on the specific topic. The user can then add those recommended people into their chat and converse with them and AI together.
Building on that original model, has now added an even more powerful tool it calls 'colleague in the loop' AI agents, which can conduct a vast array of tasks such as generating social media posts, emails or lists, to name a few.
The twist is, the content goes nowhere until trusted human beings in a user's network act as editors and fact-checkers.
co-creators Shai Magzimof (left) and Elliot Katz.
'By bringing colleagues into the loop, you get the full power of AI agents, the efficiency and the time savings, etc, without the any of that downside risk of AI mistakes going undetected,' explained Elliot Katz, who co-founded with Shai Magzimof.
Creating AI agents on mixus does not require any sort of coding or programming knowledge, just the ability to read and write.
'The beauty of this is someone who's never used AI, someone who doesn't even know what an AI agent is, you can create, can build and use agents on mixus,' declared Katz, in an interview.
In the video below, Katz demonstrates how a colleague in the loop AI agent is created in mixus.
There's no shortage of examples of the volume of AI hallucinations causing companies and individuals to swoon from their effects.
A report released in April by OpenAI, which operates the popular ChatGPT platform, revealed its o3 model hallucinated over 50% of the time, meaning every other answer was incorrect. And OpenAI's o4-mini model performed even worse: nearly four out of five responses were wrong, meaning it fabricated answers nearly 80% of the time.
A very recent example occurred just last month when a summer reading list written by a syndicated freelance writer using AI appeared in such major market newspapers as the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer.
As reported in the Sun-Times, the writer admitted he never double-checked the results of his AI search which was incredibly unfortunate because several of the book titles in the list never actually existed, making the AI-generated summaries equally false.
Katz contends it's an example of a situation that could have been prevented by use of the colleague in the loop system.
'They could be using mixus, and they could have rules that are brought out through mixus, that say, before you publish anything, you have to have your editor or a colleague or multiple colleagues press that verify button, meaning they've actually reviewed they know that what the AI put out is real and not total slop, etc,' Katz said.
Investors are backing the playbook. The company just closed its $2.6 million pre-seed funding round which included participation by Liquid 2, former NFL star quarterback Joe Montana's venture capital firm.
Access to is by subscription. The company offers a free, 14-day trial to individuals using a business or personal email address. After that period, anyone who wants to continue as a user will need to contact mixus for 'custom pricing,' according to Katz.
Since launching late last year, has changed its business model from B to C, targeting consumers, to now targeting businesses, for which, errors can be more consequential according to Katz.
That doesn't mean individuals who are self-employed or are freelancers can't sign up. They just can't do so alone.
It's all based on maintaining the collaborative nature of the site.
'You have to sign up with four other people, because that's key. We want colleagues in the loop,' said Katz. 'We are working with businesses that want to deploy AI in an AI agents in a way that they don't have to deal with these undetected AI mistakes.'
You can listen or watch the entire interview with Elliot Katz and an extended demonstration of the colleague in the loop AI agent creation tool in the author's podcast Tales From the Beat.
