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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
sentient design

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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The Pop-Up Employer: Build a Team, Do the Job, Say Goodbye

Noam Scheiber reports on algorithms that seek to build an entire organization for you with a click.
alexa

The BBQ and the Errant Butler

Marek Pawlowski shares a tale of a dinner party taken hostage by a boorish Alexa hell-bent on selling the guests music.
sentient design

AI First—with UX

AI assistants have trouble understanding user context, Mike Loukides writes, and that’s a tasty UX problem.
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In a Few Years, No Investors Are Going To Be Looking for AI Startups

VC Frank Chen writes that machine learning and artificial intelligence will be the humdrum norm in short order.
Anca Dragan
sentient design

The Future of AI Needs To Have More People in It

UC Berkeley’s Anca Dragan says algorithms need to get better at understanding human needs and behaviors.
Melinda Gates and Fei Fei Li
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Melinda Gates and Fei-Fei Li Want to Liberate AI from “Guys With Hoodies”

“AI is about to make the biggest changes to humanity, and we’re missing a whole generation of diverse technologists and leaders.”
algorithms

How Germany’s Otto Uses Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning is trying to one-up just-in-time inventory with what can only be called before-it’s-time inventory.
sentient design

The Surprising Repercussions of Making AI Assistants Sound Human

Wired’s Elizabeth Stinson considers whether we really want human personality from our bots—or whether it’s just unhelpful misdirection.
Inception stairway paradox
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The Machine Learning Paradox

Mike Loukides explains why predictive algorithms must be imperfect (and error prone) in order to contend with real-world data.
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