Artificial intelligence has received an extraordinary amount of hype from the media. Hollywood in particular has pushed a dystopian view--it's science fiction that has an awful lot of fiction in the science. We are heading into an era where we'll be increasingly interfacing with artificial intelligence--as robots, machines, drones, self-driving cars, chatbots, etc. And because of the media's AI hype, many people fear this future. At Soul Machines, we think that people will be more comfortable interacting with AI if these systems are actually more like us--if we can interact with these systems in natural ways, and over time, learn to trust and comfortably engage with them.