by Richard | Jan 15, 2016 | Blog
Very interesting discussion hosted by CNET at CES 2016 in Las Vegas. The theme is about how we’ll interact with technology in the future, and unsurprisingly speech is prominent in the discussion. The panel make some fascinating points about how future interaction will...
by Richard | Dec 22, 2015 | Blog
An excellent but all-too-short short series of videos discussing AI and some of the dangers and challenges it poses. The video is unlisted so may not embed here – you may need to view it on YouTube directly at the following link:...
by Richard | Nov 20, 2015 | Blog
Microsoft Windows turns 30. What strikes me isn’t the 30 years that have passed, nor that the first GUI’s look primitive now, but how little progress we’ve actually made in the last 30 years. If you compare Windows 1.0 and Windows 10 (see below), certainly the UI is...
by Richard | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog
Charles Ortiz, Senior Principal Manager of AI / Senior Research Scientist at Nuance Communications, wrote this article a few months ago on TechCrunch, arguing that there is no particular reason to believe AI will be bad for humanity – there are a vast number of...
by Richard | Nov 14, 2015 | Blog
Here’s an excellent article that takes an honest look at just how intelligent AI actually is, and what we really mean when we talk about Deep Learning and Neural Networks. Whilst AI is changing the world and will do so increasingly, it’s still a long way from being...
by Richard | Nov 12, 2015 | Blog
A really fascinating speech today by Andrew Haldane, Chief Economist and Executive Director at the Bank of England. This is worth reading in its entirety, but in short the Bank has analysed the job market and believes that up to 15 million could be at risk as AI...
by Richard | Nov 11, 2015 | Blog
Some interesting data on how Swedbank use Nina. Also interesting to note Swedbank’s UI – the text box on their homepage is their Virtual Assistant. Very minimal, and an example of a Virtual Assistant UI disappearing into the website....
by Richard | Nov 10, 2015 | Blog
I’ve been thinking about this a great deal recently: will the era of AI be good for humanity, freeing us further from mundane jobs, or bad for humanity, marking a dramatic change to a period of mass unemployment? On the one hand, throughout our history the advent of...
by Richard | Nov 6, 2015 | Blog
I’m generally wary of analyst reports, as they’re often either poorly executed or understandably fail to foresee disruptions that occur in the market, but they do offer a useful source of opinion. This report by Transparency Market Research is interesting, although I...
by Richard | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog
Conversational User Interfaces (CUI’s), Natural User Interfaces (NUI’s) or Virtual Assistants (VA’s), are widely acknowledged to be the future for how humans interact with complex systems, with Siri, Google Now and Nuance Nina leading the way. Simplification of...
