Six Building Blocks for a Virtual Personal Assistant
The Virtual Personal Assistant represents the biggest change in software in decades. Here are six building-block technologies that will make it possible.
emotional intelligence
How Artificial Intelligence is Reinventing the Art of Influencing Human Behavior
A neuroscientist is using artificial intelligence reduce toxic behavior in the online game, League of Legends — and it offers a peek at the future of influencing human behavior.
Our Antidotes to Technological Unemployment
Will our initiative and capacity for human connection be what saves us from technological unemployment in an era of intelligent machines?
Unrequited Love in the Time of Technology
What might it mean to live in a world where we outsource our love to machines?
Why Artificial Emotional Intelligence Really Matters
Artificial emotional intelligence is much more than knowing how to use software to manipulate users’ emotions. Our future may depend upon it.
Facebook Experiment Reveals it Can Emotionally Manipulate its Stream
A Facebook experiment reveals the company knows how to emotionally manipulate its content stream. What do these practices mean for the future of software?
Four Ways to Improve Our Online Emotional Intelligence
We need software that will help us regain some of the amazing emotional intelligence we’ve left behind in our migration to our new online home.