This publication is an outlet for my visual artistic interests, including especially the hundreds of mostly small bits of sketches and art-preparation I have done since I was a young boy. If I find time, I will describe the art and the thoughts behind it. I may also write stories about art in general, e.g. principles of art and other artists. The stories in this publication are all loosely related. Here is one way I might arrange them if I had to publish a physical book.

This story is a rough-draft. Check back later for the fully-polished story. There are great long-term benefits we expect by creating conversational user interfaces (CUIs). (See CAI Value). But in the short-term, there are some risks. Risks of creating new conversational user interfaces: It’s hard to know its affordances It’s easy for bad bots to ruin users’ expectations for later bots Join the CAI Dialog on Slack at cai-dialog.slack.com

Last updated: 2023–02–09 I started one story on How ChatGPT Works. Since then, Google has responded to the popularity of ChatGPT by announcing more plans with their own LaMDA model in the form of Bard. For now, it seams like there will be an ongoing battle between the two. Both…

This story is a rough-draft. Check back later for the fully-polished story. The title is presumptuous considering there is no published paper explaining how ChatGPT was made and I do not count myself an expert. But it’s now popular to create clickbait using the name “ChatGPT”, so why not? JK…

Random sketches in one of my many sketch books. When you look at this picture, you probably see a wild boar. What I see is images from all the audiobooks and podcasts I listened to while drawing this: Dune, All Thirteen, conversational AI podcast, Three Point Perspective podcast.

This story is a rough-draft. Check back later for the fully-polished story. Breakthroughs don’t happen overnight nor in an vacuum. There are definite threads of research within the discipline and communities of natural language processing (NLP) that highlight how breakthroughs belong to themes, categories, and ongoing work toward bigger goals…

“We were not just a band singing about these things; we were a part of these things.” — Klaus Meine Who can see the wind or predict where it will blow? Who could have predicted when the Berlin Wall would fall? When the West German rock band called The Scorpions…

Very nice explanation of a practical conversational search system. Is this same dialog system used for both voice and text based conversations? I wonder if traditional search evaluation metrics like P@1 are really appropriate in the conversational setting. It seems the user will likely reach their target product eventually in…

My family and I are finishing our basement, to be listed on short-term rental sites. Our theme is vintage travel (luggage, posters, etc.). Pencil sketch outline: Pen and ink: