Personal Assistants

BrainExpanded – The Timeline

See "BrainExpanded - Introduction" for context on this post. Notes and links Over the years, I used various ways to…

2 days ago

BrainExpanded – Introduction

This is the first post, in what I think is going to be a series, about another side project of…

2 days ago

AI is enhancing me

AI as an enhancer of human abilities.

1 year ago

“How we fell out of love with voice assistants”

The BBC article "How we fell out of love with voice assistants" by Katherine Latham is no surprise to me.…

2 years ago

“Technology is not neutral”

Interesting article by Tristan Harris. It talks about how technology platforms can take stance in global epidemic (or other similar)…

5 years ago

Digital Assistants are indeed emerging as a new platform

I just came across the "Why the iPhone Is Finally Fading” article. The author makes the case that it’s the…

6 years ago

One Assistant, Personalized, Device Ubiquity, All Services

I couldn't agree more with Viv's principles as articulated by Dag Kittlaus in his presentation earlier today. I met with…

9 years ago

Are you using a digital personal assistant?

One of the design principles we established early with Cortana was the fact that a personal digital assistant is much…

9 years ago

Wearable devices and natural user interfaces

As an advertisement, I find the video below really bad. However, the portrayed product features are an example of the transition towards more advanced…

9 years ago

Farewell Microsoft

It’s been a wonderful 9 year-long stretch at Microsoft. I’ve had the honor of working with incredibly smart people. I learnt…

10 years ago