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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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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.
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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.
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.
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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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.
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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.
Woody and Buzz of Toy Story
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Toy Story Lessons for the Internet of Things

Dan Gärdenfors ponders how to handle “leadership conflicts” in IoT devices.
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AI First—with UX

AI assistants have trouble understanding user context, Mike Loukides writes, and that’s a tasty UX problem.
Rosie the Robot
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Making Software with Casual Intelligence

Evan Prodromou observes that artificial intelligence may have the most impact in jillions of incremental little interventions and improvements, not just moonshot projects.
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