UI & Artificial Intelligence

Creative Next: AI Automation at Work

We communicate with artificial intelligence via user interface, or UI. AI innovator Erica Lee joins Dirk and Jon to talk about the present and future of people communication with our smart machines.

AI innovator Erica Lee joins Dirk and Jon to explore user interface and artificial intelligence. We talk about on-trend inputs like gestural and voice and how they contribute to augmentation and automation driven by artificial intelligence.

Memorable Quotes

"As we improve our sensor imprint and our understanding of human intelligence, how the brain works, how the body works, and how they work in relationship to each other, we can use that data and that information to really build products that help us with our goals in fitness, health, education, the environment, and more."

"With AI, the thing I am most excited about is being able to augment decision-making, not necessarily automate it."

"I would like to challenge people in AI as, are you really using AI to solve the Root Cause Analysis?"

"On the consumer side, the biggest market is with home automation, with building devices at home to help you with small tasks."

"If you can't distinguish the difference between new and completely innovative, and then being able to master the skills to actually apply that, you will just naturally be left behind."

"Voice interface is now actually starting to merge with visual interfaces."

"AI is a technology that's been around for a while, but it's especially meaningful right now because people are realizing they can turn data into insights."

"It's still clunky, and it's like this teenager trying to figure out what it's doing in the world."

Mentioned in this episode

Singularity University

CRISPR-Cas9

Who You'll Hear

Dirk Knemeyer, Social Futurist and Producer of Creative Next (@dknemeyer)

Jonathan Follett, Writer, Electronic Musician, Emerging Tech Researcher and Producer of Creative Next (@jonfollett)

Erica Lee, AI Innovator (@EricaLeeAI)

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