ai
design
2025: The Year Ahead
AI shifts from tool to design material. Product design moves from consolidation to innovation. Generative AI loses its sparkle. Sentient Design comes to the fore. Josh Clark unpacks the signals reshaping design, strategy, and creativity in 2025.
sentient design
MS Copilot Flying Straight Into the Mountain
Vaclav Vincalek ponders what happens when anyone can casually create agents and set them loose.
sentient design
When Combinations of Humans and A.I. are Useful
A research study raises challenging questions about collaborative AI interfaces, including the value of “human in the loop” interfaces and explanations of AI logic and confidence scores.
sentient design
This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat
AI pioneer Yann LeCun reminds us that just because LLMs are good at language doesn’t mean that they’re smart.
ai
Beware of Botshit
Botshit is hallucinated content that makes its way into human communications or screws up decision making.
sentient design
A Radically Adaptive World Model
A research project generates a world based on Counter-Strike, frame by frame in response to your actions. What happens when you apply the same thinking to the design of websites, dashboards, or canvas apps?
sentient design
Exploring the AI Solution Space
Jorge Arango explores what it means for machine intelligence to be “used well” and, in particular, questions the current fascination with general-purpose, open-ended chat interfaces.
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Introducing Generative Canvas
Salesforce is piloting a radically adaptive, AI-mediated dashboard for CRM users. Look out, enterprise, here comes Sentient Design.
ai
Change Blindness
Ethan Mollick shares striking visual reminders of how far generative AI has come in just 21 months.
ai
Introducing Structured Outputs in the API
The more that AI models can reliably return structured data, the more we can design interoperable and radically adaptive experiences with them.
music
Why I Finally Quit Spotify
A personal account of how algorithmic personalization can lead to a creeping blandness and a "corporation-centered” experience.
ai
AI Is Confusing — Here’s Your Cheat Sheet
A helpful glossary of fundamental AI terms from The Verge.
sentient design
Turning the Tables on AI
Oliver Reichenstein shares strategies for using AI to elevate your writing instead of handing the job entirely to the robots.
ai
Doctors Use A.I. Chatbots to Help Fight Insurance Denials
Is this an example of tech leveling the playing field, or part of an AI-weaponized red-tape arms race that no one can win?
ai
Still Trying to Sound Smart About AI? The Boss Is, Too
Execs feel pressure to move on AI, even though most admit they don’t have confidence in how to use it.
apple
WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence
John Gruber shares an under-reported tidbit from Apple’s many “Apple Intelligence” reveals.
sentient design
Illuminate
This Google project uses AI to generate NPR-style podcast conversations from academic papers.
ai
I Will F***ing Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
Has breathless AI mania primed you for a ragey rant about overhyped technology and huckster pitchmen? Nikhil Suresh has you covered.