Ok Computer. Peter Gasston

Peter Gasston
C.T. at +rehabstudio
@stopsatgreen
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Artificial Intelligence is
becoming very good,
very quickly.

How deep learning works
Input
Input
Output
Classiﬁcation

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Now A.I. is coming for your job.

Is your job at risk?
Abstractions
People
Pictures
Words
Numbers
Routine Variety
You’re alright
Get nervous
Bye Bye

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One in five of us 
could be out of work.

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–Travis Gertz
“The work we produce is repeatable and
predictable. It panders to a common
denominator.

We build buckets and templates to hold every
kind of content, then move on to the next
component of the system.

Digital design is a human assembly line.”

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– Wired
“[muScalpel] successfully transplanted a video
coding format from one media player to
another. It took the automated system 26 hours
to complete the transplant, while VLC's manual
addition of the code happened over a period of
20 days.”

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– MIT news
“Helium is a system that revamps and ﬁne-
tunes code without ever needing the original
source, in a matter of hours or even minutes.”

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AI can’t do our jobs, but it
can do bits of our jobs.

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The future of web apps 
is partly automated.

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– Travis Gertz
“While we’ve been streamlining our processes
and perfecting our machine-like assembly
techniques, others have been watching closely
and assembling their own machines.

We’ve designed ourselves right into an
environment ripe for automation.”

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– Cameron Moll
“Mastery of creation and composition is much
more important than mastery of tools.”

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– Andrew Ng
“We need to enable a lot of people to do non-
routine, non-repetitive tasks. 
Teaching innovation and creativity could be one
way to get there.”

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We should use A.I.
to our own benefit.

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We can use A.I. to provide
better services to our users.

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– Cennydd Bowles
“AI is becoming a cornerstone of user
experience. This is going to be interesting (read:
diﬃcult) for designers.”

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visual
motion
interaction
experience
service
emotion
designintelligence

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– Cennydd Bowles
“We’ll have to create frameworks / scaﬀolds /
templates for AIs to deliver output through.
These scaﬀolds may be sonic, tactile, and
linguistic as well as visual.”

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becoming very good,
very quickly.
becoming very available,
very quickly.

Watson tech stack
BLUEMIX
WATSON
NODE.JS
WWW

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The more you train
deep learning systems,
the better they get.

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At a certain point your users’
expectations will be raised.

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The ‘killer app’ of A.I. is natural
language understanding.

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A.I. excels at conversation.

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Machine: hi, this is <name> from helpdesk
connect, what can i help you with today?

Human: hi, i forgot my password. can you tell
me how i can recover it?

Machine: i’ll need to verify who it is at that

machine. can we do a hangout?

Human: yes

Machine: <a hangout ensues>

Human: cool, i am good now

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–Kyle Dent
“A conversation is a sequence of turns where
each utterance follows from what’s already
been said and is relevant to the overall
interaction.

Dialog systems must maintain a context over
several turns.”

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Virtual assistants are
everybody’s new jam.

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Conversation doesn’t need to
be vocal, but it helps.

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Making computers talk is easy.

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Making computers listen is
easy… now.

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Since 2012 Google’s voice
recognition error rate has
dropped from 26% to 8%.

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10% of Baidu search queries
are by voice.
That’s approx. 500m per day.

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Making computers understand
is hard. But possible.

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(A) Future of Web Apps: 
From GUI to CUI.

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Conversational UI is an idea
whose time has come.

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intelligence
visual
motion
interaction
experience
service
emotion
designconversation

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Old problems still apply to 
new interaction models.

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The ready availability of deep
learning happened so quickly
that we barely realised.

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A.I. is improving rapidly.
A.I. will take some jobs.
A.I. can’t create like people.
A.I. can improve your work.

Ok Computer. Peter Gasston

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