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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.
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.
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Illuminate
This Google project uses AI to generate NPR-style podcast conversations from academic papers.
sentient design
This is the Moment to Reinvent Your Product
Will you use AI to get better/faster at things you already do, or will you invent new ways to do things that weren’t previously possible?
sentient design
The 3 Capabilities Designers Need To Build for the AI Era
Designers have an opportunity to expand their roles and perspective in AI strategy, interaction design, and model design. How will we respond to the new problems and emerging interaction models that AI invites us to address and explore?
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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.
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.
ai
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.
podcast
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.
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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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.
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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.
sentient design
Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand
In Backchannel, David Weinberger considers the implications of machines constructing their own models for understanding data, quite divorced from our own (more simplistic) models.
sentient design
Algorithm-Driven Design: How AI is Changing Design
Designer Yury Vetrov collected a wide-ranging set of design projects and tools where bots are the designers.