Voice first does not mean voice only Conversational voice is a brilliant inclusive, communication mode. But as illustrated here, we have limited bandwidth to process a noisy soundscape, so sometimes we need bi-modal solutions.
Conversations and Memories - Introducing Hobson Seamless conversation and memory have been Huge historical barriers to effective digital assistive solutions. Hobson is a mainstream voice first conversational personal assistant with a great memory and profound assistive potential.
Eyes; what are they good for? A summary of 5 different task categories in which we rely fundamentally on vision and some observations on how I manage without any sight. There’s a brilliant but simple app called Be My Eyes described in this post, which despite its limitations, still surpasses what AI can do
Dancing With Technology and The Right Number Of Crashes Is Not Zero My recent enjoyable and amusing San Francisco experience of two blind men locating and riding in an entirely autonomous Waymo. The future of independent blind travel is getting closer, but there is still a real challenge in joining up the dots for an end to end inclusive experience
A Gauntlet for AGI - The Blind Man Strikes Back I’m laying down a gauntlet to any proponent of the imminent emergence of AGI, i.e. Artificial General intelligence