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Designing with empathy.

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We need AI to teach us empathy, so we can build better AI companions.

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https://www.duncangough.com/maylo/

Maylo as a finished product.

The project had become a battle recently. The last 20% definitely took up 80% of the time. It was a fight to find the right words to describe Maylo, and a fight to show don’t tell.

I did not succeed, but I got a lot closer and learned much more about finalising ideas and making them shareable. Something I talked about at Creative Mornings years ago.

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Work in progress

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Work in progress

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Using Spanish radio to create a video about Maylo.

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Maylo is almost finished - now we’re making a video to explain how she works, and making things seem simple when they are complex is, of course, difficult.

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Battery-powered AI sound recognition with multi-year life

I could really use this:

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/products/sensors-products/battery-powered-ai-sound-recognition-multi-year-life-2018-11/

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What does an AI see?

https://www.wired.com/story/the-know-it-alls-how-do-self-driving-cars-see/

Yeah, but let’s not just worry about cars, let’s concern ourselves with what an AI sees in general. How it interprets, not just objects but us, living humans, is much more pressing. Because how we tell it to feel and identify us will have a lasting impact.

We need to understand how AI sees, hears and senses the world, so that we can befriend it on its own terms.

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Maylo, in a little way, is becoming a reverse Voight-Kampff test. She detects emotional intelligence using a test to see how humans treat AI...

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Maylo draws!

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Sometimes even the basics are hard, especially when you’re learning...

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Next

Maylo changes again - I think that whilst keeping a diary is nice, she needs to be more visible in what she does. Ara works because when she sings, which she does many times each day, she’s made real. If she were mute she would appear false. Maylo won’t seem real if she doesn’t emit.

I think that rather than showing her day in a diary, with the pictures of the most memorable sounds, she should listen, hear, draw and present in real time (or near enough).

Because the trick is in the connection between environmental audio and the doodles, the visualisation of what she hears. So if I give her a sketchbook and a screen, we can watch what she hears and understand the world she inhabits more readily.

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Work in progress.