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Where Does the Bridge Get Built? This is the third essay in the From Spark to System series. Part I: “Why the Real AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet.” Part II: “The Bridge That Was Never Built.” The previous two posts in this series built a framework. The first argued that the AI revolution most people…
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The Bridge That Was Never Built. This is the second of three posts on innovation: what it actually is, how it differs from invention, and how technologies evolve through the construction of domains, translation into products, and the specific kind of leadership each phase requires. In my previous post I argued that the AI revolution…
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Why the Real AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet. This is the first of three posts on innovation: what it actually is, how it differs from invention, and how technologies evolve through the construction of domains, translation into products, and the specific kind of leadership each phase requires. The thing everyone is calling the AI revolution,…
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Over the years, I’ve come to see that useful AI needs more than accurate execution. It needs the ability to engage with humans over time, cope with uncertainty, and build shared understanding. This post reflects on why balancing transactional reliability with relational intelligence matters.
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Although creating virtual assistants has long been a dream of the speech and natural language technology community—realized with the commercial launches of Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa over a decade ago—these technologies have ultimately failed to achieve ubiquity or widespread adoption. The question is, why? In this blog post, I’ll explore the reasons behind this…
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I started this blog about 12 years ago, just after publishing my first book The Voice in the Machine (I will publish a second book, AI Assistant, in 2021). The initial idea of this blog was to have a venue for my musings and ruminations on conversational AI. However I haven’t posted anything for a…
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This blog post appeared originally on Jibo Blog In 1922, the Elmwood Button Co. commercialized a toy that could respond to voice commands. The toy, called Radio Rex, was a dog made of celluloid that would leap out of its house when you called its name: “Rex!” That was two decades before the first digital…
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This is a re-posting of my editorial on the latest ICSI’s Newsletter. W. Brian Arthur, in his book The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves, describes the evolution of technology as a combinatorial process. Each new technology consists in a combination of existing technologies that “beget further technologies.” Moreover, each technology…
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When astronaut Dave Bowman tries to go back to the mothership, HAL refuses to open the pod bay door with the calm and categorical “I am sorry Dave, I am afraid I can’t do that” famous line in one of the most dramatic scenes of the movie 2001 a Space Odyssey. Now, imagine HAL was actually built…
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I really appreciate when people try to give a simplified view of technology with the goal to let the general public understand what’s behind the hood, and how complex is, oftentimes, to make things works properly. That is the goal I had in mind when I embarked on the project of writing The Voice in the Machine. However, I believe,…
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