I almost felt bad for Siri when I said “Hey Siri, open Alexa”. Siri dutifully opened my Alexa app. When I tried “Hey Siri, OK Google” there wasn’t an app to open – but a joke[…]
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Rational Agents and Emotional Humans: Why you should include variable rewards
It’s one week until John’s birthday, and you just got the an invitation from Lisa for his birthday party. In the good ol’ days, you’d add it to your day planner, make a mental note to get[…]
Rational Agents and Emotional Humans: Why you should ask “Why?”
An intelligent agent is by definition a rational agent, who will “acts so as to achieve the best outcome or, when there is uncertainty, the best expected outcome.” With the agent being rational and humans[…]
Bye Bye Screens and Keyboard – Welcome Voice Control and AI Assistants
I often hear people say that talking to your devices is unnatural. “No way people will start talking to their machines, especially at work”. It’s interesting, and mostly shows how bad we are at imaging[…]
Intelligent Agents – the death of traditional branding and marketing?
The other day, while I was reading an article about Intelligent Agents and Artificial Intelligence, I realized that this might be the end of marketing and branding as we know it. Why? It’s all about[…]