Face to Face Interaction in the Age of AI
Artificial Intelligence is here. Deep Fakes are here. It is entirely possible to have a conversation with someone / something and believe it is a person, only to discover it is a computer and Artificial Intelligence. Except for ASL and signed languages. For decades students have pursued masters projects trying to create and ASL/English translator. Some of the more creative ones involved gloves, covered with sensors, which a signer would wear. All of these translation projects have ultimately failed. They can provide word-to-sign equivalence, but ASL is not "English on the Hands." It has non-linear / spatial grammatical functions that spoken/written languages cannot duplicate. Soon Artificial Intelligence will become so widespread that there will be no place safe for anyone to have a private conversation in any spoken language. ASL and other signed languages may offer the only path to real privacy. Spoken languages can be detected through microphones and software can
