Wolf Paulus’ Journal

The CI Conference #CIcon2022 was taking place in the Heart of Silicon Valley, focusing on major AI trends in conversing with computers in human language.
My talk was titled “Onward to Conversational Applications“
When in the nineties, companies started publishing their websites, they needed people with a new skill set: Webmasters.
Today, this dated job title has morphed into a broad field of tech employment, including graphic design, search engine optimization, content strategy. Most of what early Webmasters did, is now handled by content management systems like WordPress. Modern websites are rather web applications and interaction logic has moved from the backend to the web browser.
This talk explores how much the above mentioned trends can already be observed developing Conversational and Voice User Interfaces and how a new approach to API design may make the “Webmasters for VUI” obsolete.
Shallow CUIs and VUIs are today’s goofy static web pages that need to be replaced by full-blown conversational applications.

VOICE Summit is the leading annual event bringing together 5,000 of the voice tech industry’s top creators, developers, designers, marketers and executives.
I talked about “Striving for likability” Over the next decade, the ambient computing era will eclipse the PC era. Information will be available everywhere, accessible frictionless and frustration-free through voice user interfaces. However, many of the old recipes for creating delight don’t apply to Voice-first or Voice-Only experiences.
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