Finally, a job for us liberal arts majors: The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets - The Washington Post "As tech behemoths and a wave of start-ups double down on virtual assistants that can chat with human beings, writing for AI is becoming a hot job in Silicon Valley. Behind Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are not just software engineers. Increasingly, there are poets, comedians, fiction writers, and other artistic types charged with engineering the personalities for a fast-growing crop of artificial intelligence tools." Interesting discussion of what people want and expect from their AI, and avoiding "creepiness".
