What do Google, Amazon, IBM, Apple, Microsoft and all the airlines and car companies want?

They want to communicate more accurately, resolve issues faster and with higher levels of satisfaction than at present. They also want to enable more complex communication. And they want to do it amia...

03 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

Two ears, one mouth (or, Somatic analytics, and a talk with Dr. Skip Rizzo)

This article returns to the thread of the last few months by looking at how robots can measure our emotions and body language. My aunt, a Tennessee tobacco grower, used to remind me that God gave m...

20 November 2013, by Mark Stephen Meadows

The truth is no stranger than fiction when it comes to robots

Killer robots, a problem as old as voodoo. Source: x-ray delta one. By Kathleen Richardson, University College London Robots represent the cutting edge in science. For decades we have been promis...

21 August 2013, by The Conversation

In-corporating body language into NLP (or, More notes on the design of automated body language)

This article discusses how body language is a part of natural language, personality, and NLP design. The article covers various methods for approaching this problem and makes recommendations for the r...

07 August 2013, by Mark Stephen Meadows

My robot is smelling my dirty laundry (or, Notes on privacy, PRISM, and home service robotics)

This article considers privacy in robotic systems (such as personal service robotics) as being of greater importance than privacy in telecommunications (such as Internet). We will return to our regula...

03 July 2013, by Mark Stephen Meadows

“A Paro walks into a club…” (or, Notes on the design of automated body language)

This article discusses personality design and how proper natural language interface design includes body language. The article is about the design of hearts and minds for robots. It argues that psyc...

05 June 2013, by Mark Stephen Meadows

The man behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the new AI | WIRED UK

In tandem with other researchers at Google, Ng is building one of the most ambitious artificial-intelligence systems to date, the so-called Google Brain. Ng leads a new field of computer science res...

08 May 2013, by Hallie Siegel

The uncanny valet (or, Notes on the design of robot psychology)

This article outlines the problems of today's phone and online help systems and offers solutions to conversational systems of tomorrow. The article is about the design of hearts and minds for robots, ...

04 May 2013, by Mark Stephen Meadows

Noam Chomsky on where Artificial Intelligence went wrong

An extended conversation with the legendary linguist...See on www.theatlantic.com...

02 November 2012, by Andra Keay

How artificial intelligence is changing our lives

“From smart phones that act as personal concierges to self-parking cars to medical robots, the artificial intelligence revolution is here. So where do humans fit in?” By Gregory M. Lamb in...

06 October 2012, by John Payne

Future Talk 32-1, Artificial Intelligence

Interview with Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, on progress being made in artificial intelligence. Self driving cars are discussed. See on www.youtube.com...

09 July 2012, by Andra Keay

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