Scott Olson

Scott's work as an early leader in the Amazon Alexa project brought him close to the growing field of machine learning. He became certain that computers would mimic human intelligence to an astonishing degree, and though AI in fiction is a well-treaded territory, he found himself wanting to talk about technology that was closer to reality than the omnipotent Skynet. Scott imagined an imperfect, alien intelligence that wouldn’t have predictable motives or airtight reasoning. That’s what he saw in Amazon’s nascent electronic brain, and that’s what makes realistic AI so ripe for storytelling.