Current new-crop of AI assistants is uninspired. "What if we made like a little guy who summarizes your meetings? Or this other guy to schedule your dentist appointment"
We need to aim higher. Emotion sculptors and dream architects, reality-weavers, dimensional navigators
I believe “what effect do you want to have on people” is one of the most important questions we should ask when we are making something. Life isn't just a series of problems to be solved but experiences to be had.
“emotional architecture”—a concept which also lends the title to this exhibition. According to Barragán, “It is very important for humankind that architecture should move by its beauty; if there are many equally valid technical solutions to a problem, the one which offers the user a message of beauty and emotion, that one is architecture.”
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.