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Josh Clark at Beyond Tellerrand: "A.I. is your new design material." Photo by Stefan Nitzsche.
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A.I. Is Your New Design Material

Discover the opportunities to use machine-generated content, insight, and interaction as design material in your everyday work.
The Technology We Deserve - Link
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The Technology We Deserve

Smart gadgets often abuse their trust or overreach their capabilities. A personal list of favorite fitness devices yields some principles for good product design.
algorithms

How Machines Are Taking Over the World’s Stock Markets

Use machine learning “to identify new theories, and once you identify a new theory, you throw the machine away, you don’t want the machine.”
Chatbot conversation trouble
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Slack and the Decline of Bots

After customers found Slack bots hard to use, the company added traditional UI elements to bolster the bots’ simple vocabulary and hard-to-remember “slash commands.”
Figma's decade of design, image courtesy of Figma
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The Decade of Design

Figma interviewed a dozen experts, including Big Medium’s Josh Clark, to chronicle the rise of design in the past decade—and what comes next.
You're Not Too Late
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You’re Not Late to Machine Learning

If you’re worried that you’re behind in getting in on machine learning, never fear: AI has not so much come of age as reached an awkward adolescence. You’re right on time.
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AI Dungeon

AI Dungeon is a pretty astonishing example of generative fiction—in the form of old-school text adventure game.
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What is the Role of an AI Designer?

Facebook’s Amanda Linden shares how AI product designers approach their work in Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence team.
privacy

With Brits Used to Surveillance, More Companies Try Tracking Faces

Companies use UK’s omnipresent security cameras as cultural permission to bring facial-recognition tech to semi-public spaces, tracking criminal history but also ethnicity and other personal traits.
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Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor

Grooming data for the machines has a human cost.
Making friends with the robots
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Why Machine Learning and AI Matter for Design Teams

There’s a critical role for design in the era of the algorithm—and your organization almost certainly has what it needs to jump in today.
alexa

s5e11: Things That Have Caught My Attention

Dan Hon considers the challenges and pitfalls in designing a one-size-fits-all system that talks to children and, especially, teaches them new behaviors.
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AI Is Harder Than You Think

It seems the culmination of artificial intelligence is making salon appointments. In the New York Times, Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis say today’s data-crunching model for AI not panning out.
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Google Duplicitous

With the announcement of Google Duplex, Jeremy Keith wonders whether the machines augment us, or whether we now work for the machines.
Northern lights at Juvet - Photo by James Gilyead
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The Juvet Agenda

The Juvet Agenda lays out the urgent themes surrounding artificial intelligence and machine learning—and presents a set of provocations for teasing out a future we want to live in.
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Stop Pretending You Really Know What AI Is

“Artificial intelligence” is so broadly used that the phrase no longer has much practical meaning, bemoans John Pavlus at Quartz.
Illustration of facial analysis
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AI Guesses Whether You're Gay or Straight from a Photo

The algorithm could correctly distinguish between gay and straight men 81% of the time, and 74% for women.
Dinosaur (maybe on a surfboard?) 4x3
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Designing with Artificial Intelligence: The Dinosaur on a Surfboard

On the Presentable podcast, Josh Clark joins Jeff Veen to consider the role for designers in a world of algorithms and machine learning.
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