Weave.ai's co-founder Stéphane Bura argues devices need to become truly interactive - but that it will require a cultural shift and an AI -lead approach. He was one of the main speakers at SwiftKey's latest AI meet up. www.swiftkey.com

1. @s_bura
stephane@weave.ai
Stéphane Bura
Weave.ai
Beyond The Pale
The Future of AI is Interactivity

2. • Our computers and devices are
barely interactive.
• Computer interactivity is
highly desirable and requires both
a cultural shift and an
AI-driven approach.

9. The AI Stack for User Interaction
Understanding What the User Is Asking

10. The AI Stack for User Interaction
Understanding What the User Is Asking
Predicting & Planning Tasks

11. The AI Stack for User Interaction
Understanding What the User Is Asking
Predicting & Planning Tasks
Understanding Who the User Is

15. • Our computers and devices are
barely interactive.
• Computer interactivity is
highly desirable and requires both
a cultural shift and an
AI-driven approach.

16. Interactivity:
A cyclic process in which two actors
alternately listen, think, and speak.
CHRIS CRAWFORD

26. OK
CANCEL
BACK

28. • Our computers and devices are
barely interactive.
• Computer interactivity is
highly desirable and requires both
a cultural shift and an
AI-driven approach.

29. CLAUDE SHANNON

30. Performative Communication

32. CLAUDE SHANNON

33. ERVING GOFFMAN

34. Meta-communication
The part of communication
that is not about content

36. INVOLVEMENT
&
CONTEXTS
RAY BIRDWHISTELL

38. Communication is the
performance of culture
ERVING GOFFMAN

39. The greater purpose of
communication is to reassure all its
participants that they belong to the
same culture.

41. CULTURE:
ALL WE NEED TO KNOW
IN ORDER TO BELONG
WARD GOODENOUGH

42. BELONGING IS BEING PREDICTABLE
RAY BIRDWHISTELL

43. When somebody is unpredictable,
people try to impose
their own rules upon him in order
to make him predictable.
ERVING GOFFMAN

47. • Our computers and devices are
barely interactive.
• Computer interactivity is
highly desirable and requires both
a cultural shift and an
AI-driven approach.

48. Beyond The Pale
The Future of AI is Interactivity

50. BELONGING IS BEING PREDICTABLE
RAY BIRDWHISTELL

53. BELONGING IS BEING PREDICTABLE
RAY BIRDWHISTELL

54. The AI Stack for User Interaction
Understanding What the User Is Asking
Predicting & Planning Tasks
Understanding Who the User Is

55. The AI Stack for User Interaction
Predicting / Correcting User Commands &
Inputs
Understanding What the User Is Asking
Predicting & Planning Tasks
Understanding Who the User Is

59. The AI Stack for User Interaction
Predicting / Correcting User Commands &
Inputs
Understanding What the User Is Asking
Predicting & Planning Tasks
Understanding Who the User Is

60. The AI Stack for User Interaction
Predicting / Correcting User Commands &
Inputs
Understanding What the User Is Asking
Predicting & Planning Tasks
Understanding Who the User Is
Understanding What the User Wants

62. SEYMOUR PAPERTJEAN PIAGET

63. Constructionism

64. Interactivity:
The process by which two actors build
models of one another in order to
influence each other’s behavior.
STEPHANE BURA

65. Interactivity:
The process by which two actors build
models of one another in order to
influence each other’s behavior.
STEPHANE BURA

68. WHAT
HOW
WHY

69. Constructionism

71. • Our computers and devices are
barely interactive.
• Computer interactivity is
highly desirable and requires both
a cultural shift and an
AI-driven approach.

73. @s_bura
stephane@weave.ai
Stéphane Bura
Weave.ai
Beyond The Pale
The Future of AI is Interactivity