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Meet Boardy, the ‘Aussie’ AI networker that’s the talk of LinkedIn

Tess Bennett
Tess BennettTechnology reporter

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The LinkedIn fandom fed up with its irrelevant noise is turning to one of the buzziest artificial intelligence start-ups to facilitate professional phone introductions by a bot styled with a distinctly Australian twang.

Boardy Boardman, an AI agent created by New York-based start-up Boardy AI, has gone viral on LinkedIn over the past fortnight as hundreds of users recount their realistic interactions with it.

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Tess Bennett is a technology reporter with The Australian Financial Review, based in the Brisbane newsroom. She was previously the work & careers reporter. Connect with Tess on Twitter. Email Tess at tess.bennett@afr.com

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