A deep learning scientist whose last startup was acquired by Snap to build its My AI chatbot has raised seed funding for his latest venture: a platform for building and operating real-time, video-based conversational AI agents. eSelf, as the startup is known, is today coming out of stealth with $4.5 million in its coffers to enter the race to build live, interactive, and more realistic AI assistants. Its initial focus is on verticals including education, sales, financial services, real estate, a...