'I'm a Cloud of Infinitesimal Data Computation' When Machines Talk Back: An interview with Deborah Harrison, one of the personality designers of Microsoft's Cortana AI. (11th January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Young, Liam
• Other Names: Young Liam guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 89:Number 1(2019)
• Page Start: 112
• Page End: 117
• Publication Date: 2019-01-11
• Subjects: ERICA (ERato Intelligent Conversational Android) -- ERATO ISHIGURO Symbiotic Human–Robot Interaction Project -- Microsoft -- Cortana -- Deborah Harrison -- Apple -- Amazon -- Google -- Spotify -- Siri -- Alexa -- Crypton Future Media -- Xbox -- Halo -- 343 team -- KEI -- Hatsune Miku -- Japanese AI pop star -- Wataru Sasaki -- Vocaloid -- Bisōjo -- Otaku features -- DX7 keyboard synthesiser -- University of Osaka -- Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro's Intelligent Robotics Laboratory -- Geminoid HI‐4 -- Dr Kohei Ogawa -- Post‐Anthropocene -- Stanley Kubrick -- 2001: A Space Odyssey -- Scarlett Johannson -- Spike Jonze -- Her; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2398
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : How is the personality of an artificial intelligence crafted, and what are the issues at stake? As one of the original architects of Microsoft's digital assistant Cortana's personality, Deborah Harrison knows the process inside out. In an interview with Guest‐EditorLiam Young, she examines the questions that creating this AI raised in terms of gender, culture and ethics, and considers the future of machine interactions. Wataru Sasaki, lead developer of the software behind the AI pop star Hatsune Miku, and android engineer Kohei Ogawa also join the discussion.