Can we be friends with our AI? | Adam Cutler | TED Institute @tedinstitute
Can we be friends with our AI? | Adam Cutler | TED Institute  @tedinstitute
Uploaded February 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
What if we could form meaningful relationships with AI? IBM designer Adam Cutler argues that we’re already doing this -- we name our cars and mourn our iPhones when they break -- but imagine if we could develop a deeper emotional bond with our machines. By interpreting intent through language and pairing it with tone and semantic analysis in real time, Cutler shares a vision of the future where AI can predict what you want based only on the smallest, most human of hints.

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