The Uncanny valley….if you’ve never heard of it before – were crossing this bridge with AI. The human likeness in recent demonstrations by Google and Microsoft’s voice assistance have all too much resembled people themselves . Nevertheless, changes still need to be made to remove the awkward demonstrations that meddle with our privacy.

If we think social media manipulated and harvested too much of our info, watch out for Siri, Alexa and the like. In a sense, AI and the integration with our senses has started . As we watch and hear, Google watches and hears..our disconnected yet connected world is offering a toolset of machine learning , IOT and Cloud services in both the realm of digital and the real world. More and more features are simply the nature of the growing development spectrum.

Innovation and Business offerings are poised to ask : If you are handed all these materials what will you create? How will you use, balance and adjust all the senses perceived ? Will you balance broadcast, harvest and create feedback loops to achieve desirable and useful innovations? If we don’t act with pre-meditation we might fall back into the uncanny valley in which machines have unlike-able experiences, much like those of the 1980’s. Back to square one , lets start with the drawing board…