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"While still young in robot years (and actual years; she turns 2 years old on Feb. 14), Sophia's natural language processing capabilities, a key function of AI across many voice AI platforms like Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant, in some ways seem impressive. That's because she doesn't simply answer what she's asked. However, she also sometimes doesn't answer at all. Hanson Robotics requested some prep questions to train her in some topics ahead of time (something I'd never give a human before an interview), and Sophia could answer very few of them. Here's a transcript of our conversation. And the ones she did answer were nothing more than one-liners."

Radio ads used 15khz frequency that humans can't hear, but mosquitoes think is a dragonfly.

Design experience firm Method has been publishing a series of explorations in human-centered design called 10×10. The most recent installation, Gaming for Behavior Change captures insight into the nature of game mechanics, and how these mechanics engage individuals in ways that are important for all interaction designers to consider.