Recent quotes:

The Promises and Pitfalls of Voice as a UI — Medium

Just like how we all learned to accept tap interfaces and swipe gestures, users need a metaphor to help guide them through the transition period between GUI’s and CUI’s (conversational user interfaces).

Inside Deep Dreams: How Google Made Its Computers Go Crazy — Backchannel — Medium

We all know that artificial neural nets are computational and have no “minds.” Yet one could not help but intuit that the results were some kind of window into the neural net’s subconscious.

The Bigger Picture on Amazon: Humans as “Amabots"

The role of human labor is to do the work machines haven’t yet learned, so systems that make machines learn faster speed up the pace through which machines take human jobs. This is why machine learning is so critical to understanding the future ‘de-humanization’ of work. Until now, the communications and decision making aspects of most knowledge work has simply proven too demanding for machines. But that is rapidly changing.