Robb Wilson’s Thoughts on AI Voice Cloning

Recently, I was asked about voice replication technology and whether there were potential applications in human resource management scenarios, like replicating a CEO’s voice for internal communications. The timing of the question was interesting because the answer ties directly to something I’ve been thinking a lot about: the skeuomorphic phase of conversational design that we’re […]

Combining NLP and NLU to Deliver Real ROI

There’s a common misconception in the marketplace that conversational AI basically comes down to people talking to machines. For anyone eager to capitalize on the opportunities conversational AI affords, this is a dangerous line of thinking. Part of the confusion arises from a fundamental misunderstanding of the technologies that allow machines to understand human language, […]

Ethics Of Experiential AI

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” I had the extremely good fortune of growing up under the tutelage of family friend and neighbor (and renowned Canadian philoso- pher) Marshall McLuhan. A man who more or less predicted the World Wide Web 30 years before it emerged, McLuhan uttered countless impactful and […]

Conversational Interfaces Scale in Ways GUIs Never Will

Attempts at scaling GUIs, like Sharepoint and Salesforce, ultimately revealed the hard truth that a UI with a hundred tabs designed by as many people is even worse to navigate than it sounds. Salesforce acquired Slack so it could rebuild around a unifying.