Wolf Paulus’ Journal

The CI Conference #CIcon2020 taking place in the Heart of Silicon Valley, at the DoubleTree San Jose, focuses on major AI trends in conversing with computers in human language.
On February 10-11, my talk is titled “Always empathic but never biased”. This talk explores and demonstrates possibilities of a likable and unbiased engagement, by using affective computing technologies and emotions analytics. I will ALSO turn to a more controversial but interesting topic: genderless bots and an approach that detects bias, before a bot relays it to its users.

Usually, around this time of the year, I’d probably had spoken at several conferences and the calendar would show even more for the Fall, but I have no plans to speak at a ‘real’ conferences anytime soon .. but honestly, I really do miss it.
Let’s not feel too miserable, instead relive a moment when I shared some in-depth ideas about conversational interfaces and how to make them better for the future.

During this episode of Digital Conversations with Billy Bateman, I had the opportunity to talk about some principles of Voice User Interfaces and the importance of setting expectations.

Jiaqi Pan, CEO at Landbot, interviewed me for this episode of The Future of Chatbots podcast. “In today’s episode, I am talking to Wolf Paulus, a software engineer with a lifetime of experience who spent the last 9 years working for Intuit known mainly for tax filing products and QuickBooks accounting software. He shares his opinions about the evolution of chatbots and makes a case the voice user interfaces.” Well, I didn’t hold anything back “.. Chatbots are blackberries of our time ..”

The AWS Community Day is a regional conference organized and attended by AWS practitioners and its primary objective is peer-to-peer learning. This year’s US Western region AWS community day will be fully online. On Friday, November 13, 2020, I will be talking about the one AWS Lambda function that rules them all. showing the python implementation of an AWS Lambda function, performing things like: serving an HTML page,  consuming HTTP Post requests (sent from that page HTML page), calling other AWS Lambda functions, securely storing received data in a DynamoDB, synthesizing text into speech, i.e. returning an MP3, calling a native library or executable that was deployed with the lambda function .. and more.