Facing the Future

Can a New Zealand-based lab take virtual assistants from the realm of marketing gimmicks and endow them with real intelligence?

Aaron Gell
Published in
21 min readJul 11, 2019

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OOne day in the spring of 2010, a computer scientist named Mark Sagar sat down to compose an email to his boss, film director Peter Jackson. Sagar had been the special projects supervisor on Jackson’s 2005 film, King Kong

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Aaron Gell
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Medium editor-at-large, with bylines in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times and numerous other publications. ¶ aarongell.com