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CEOs, Students, and Algorithms

Hummingbirds and flowers co-adapted over millions of years. As with the shapes of the flowers they take nectar from, hummingbird beaks grew to different lengths, some straight, some curved.

Photo: Sonia Nadales

However, some bees learned that they could access the nectar within tubular flowers by chewing a hole at the base and robbing the nectar from there. When that happens, the flower loses its nectar without getting pollinated.

We see this with humans and computers too. Continue reading “CEOs, Students, and Algorithms”

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Voice AI, Telecom, Scams, and Co-evolution

What a time to be alive. I was inspired to write this based on seeing a friend’s work get some new attention (more on that below). And by the way, this is my first post on this new second-order thinking project so I’m diving in even before I had the chance to write a piece on why I’ve started the project itself.

Let’s discuss new opportunities with interactive voice AI.

If you haven’t seen it, here’s the Google Duplex demo from two days ago that has everyone fired up. Google Duplex is a voice AI that, at this point, can make a transactional phone call for you save you time by talking to the human on the other end. Continue reading “Voice AI, Telecom, Scams, and Co-evolution”