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AI pioneer Yann LeCun reminds us that just because LLMs are good at language doesn’t mean that they’re smart.

Botshit is hallucinated content that makes its way into human communications or screws up decision making.

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?

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.

Salesforce is piloting a radically adaptive, AI-mediated dashboard for CRM users. Look out, enterprise, here comes Sentient Design.

Ethan Mollick shares striking visual reminders of how far generative AI has come in just 21 months.

The more that AI models can reliably return structured data, the more we can design interoperable and radically adaptive experiences with them.

A personal account of how algorithmic personalization can lead to a creeping blandness and a "corporation-centered” experience.

A helpful glossary of fundamental AI terms from The Verge.

Oliver Reichenstein shares strategies for using AI to elevate your writing instead of handing the job entirely to the robots.

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?

Execs feel pressure to move on AI, even though most admit they don’t have confidence in how to use it.

John Gruber shares an under-reported tidbit from Apple’s many “Apple Intelligence” reveals.

This Google project uses AI to generate NPR-style podcast conversations from academic papers.

Has breathless AI mania primed you for a ragey rant about overhyped technology and huckster pitchmen? Nikhil Suresh has you covered.

In a powerful and historically grounded essay, Jeremy Wagstaff asks that we not abdicate the vision for AI solely to the companies who stand to gain from it.

Design legend John Maeda discovers some old gold from Big Medium’s Josh Clark.

This is fine.