Suprahuman is the product of a collaboration between William Wiebe and Dr. John Santerre, a computer scientist working on the development of scalable machine learning techniques for use on cancer and antimicrobial resistance. In the case of Apple’s I.V.R. support system, for example, the progression of technology has outpaced my own relationship with it. When the voice of Apple prompts me today to speak in complete sentences, I find myself constrained to a few words, spoken as robotically as I can manage, as if the machine will respond more gracefully to one of its own. The robot has exceeded my own naturalism: ...