Humans, AI and the User Interface of the Future

To test whether his invention is indistinguishable from a human being, he helicopters in a young engineer to see if he falls in love with the robot. Today, making machines and humans indistinguishable from each other is no longer science fiction--it's good business. In fact, a wave of startups are part of a new trend that promises to radically simplify our lives by making it harder to determine whether we're communicating with a person or computer code. In my last post I discussed how I use some of these services and in this post, I'll go deeper into what this trend is all about. I'll look into how pairing new technologies with human assistants will result in tremendous new products, which promise to enhance our lives -- that is, until the robots completely take over and destroy us all.