Category Archives: Human-Machine Interaction

Streaming intelligible speech from the brain in real time

A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco has unlocked a way to restore naturalistic speech for people with severe paralysis. This work solves the long-standing challenge of latency in speech neuroprostheses, the time lag between when … Continue reading

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AI Interview

Kurt Cagle: “I’ve been interviewed hundreds of times over my career for work-related positions, consultations, and podcasts. An interview is a conversation. It is a chance to get to know the people you might be working with, to assess the … Continue reading

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Is AI the new UI?

“Salesforce made its name by offering a great UI atop a database. But if AI really is the next generation of software interaction, we might see something far more radical—something that shifts focus away from the user meticulously clicking around, to the system doing … Continue reading

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Removing Ambiguity in Business Rules

In his recent article “Being Unambiguous Beyond Reasonable Doubt in Expressing Rules” Ron Ross gave an example of the kind of ambiguity that policy interpreters, business analysts, and IT professionals deal with daily. It’s a sentence from the California 2014 … Continue reading

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The importance of handwriting

The Economist published an interesting article “The importance of handwriting is becoming better understood”: “In modern life, writing means typing. Writing by hand has become an endangered species. But one series of studies has found a big advantage in note-taking … Continue reading

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Generative AI on the Peak of the 2023 Hype Cycle

On Aug 16, 2023 Gartner published a press release Gartner Places Generative AI on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies: “While all eyes are on AI right now, CIOs and CTOs must also … Continue reading

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Towards Programming as Conversation

With LLMs taking the world, the prediction “What comes after serverless? Conversational Programming!” becomes a reality. It is interesting that even in 1967 Marvin Minsky understood the possibility of a 2-way conversation between programmer and computer, where the program is … Continue reading

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An active repository of all human knowledge?

Yann LeCun tweeted: “Imagine a future in which your daily interaction with the world of information is mediated by an AI assistant. This AI assistant would be like an active repository of all human knowledge. It will become your best … Continue reading

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Human-Machine Conversations: Dynamic Planning and Composition

This article summarizes recent advances in dynamic planning for human-to-assistant conversations. Many types of conversations, from gathering information to offering recommendations, require a flexible approach and the ability to modify the original plan for the conversation based on its flow. … Continue reading

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A new interface?

Prof. Toby Walsh shared “Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing”: “When Microsoft launched Windows, it was the start of a revolution. Rather than typing cryptic instructions, we could just … Continue reading

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