Artificial Intelligence, User Interfaces, and Happiness

Alon HalevyC.E.ORecruit Institute of Technology

NDBSSeptember 22, 2016

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution

A.I.

Recruit Holdings

Recruit Institute of Technology• Technology hub for all of Recruit Holdings

• In Silicon Valley and Tokyo

• Contribute to and enhance Recruit services

• Conduct and publish top-notch research

• Contribute to society through open source projects

Predictions: by 2025…(made by 800 executives and experts)• 91.2% of experts predict that: 10% of people

wearing clothes connected to the Internet

• 84.1%: the first 3D printed car in production

• 81.7%: the first implantable mobile phone available commercially.

• 76.4%: the first transplant of a 3D printed liver

• 45.2%: the first AI machine on corporate board of directors

Chat Bots: Better User Interfaces Powered by A.I.• Advances in speech recognition and natural

language understanding enable a new class of user interfaces:

• combining traditional UI elements with AI is crucial.

• Everyone is rushing to build bots for everything. But why?

• Avoid lines, long phone calls

• Battle the “app deluge”

• Create truly different applications

U.I. with Speech and Natural Language

New Form Factor: Bots Always Listening• Extend with

new Alexa skills

• A gateway to smart homes

Combat the App Deluge• All apps on one platform: Messenger,

Slack

• But you still need to know about each app

One Bot to Rule them All

Can Bots Give Advice?

What About Life/Happiness Advice?

JoyBot• Can we create technology that steers people

towards behaviors that make them happier?

• Provide advice at the right time and place

• JoyBot 1.0:

• Record your happy moments

• See then again later; enjoy them multiple times

• Ultimately, we’ll give you advice on what makes you happy.

It’s All About the Data• Before you can apply AI techniques you need (good)

data!

• But:

• What data do I have?

• What does the data mean?

• Is the data correct? Clean?

• Why is the data so fragmented?

• Open-source data integration platform

Conclusions• A.I. has made some great strides, but general AI

is still not within reach.

• It’s exciting to focus on A.I., but a lot of the work is in the data management.

• Chatbots should focus on creating new experiences for users:

• Helping you be happier and giving you timely advice is our current bet.

alon@recruit.ai