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New Aug 13, 2024
Change Blindness
A great reminder from Ethan Mollick of how quickly things have changed in AI generation quality in the last 18 months. AI right now is the worst that it will ever be; only getting better from here....
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New Aug 7, 2024
Introducing Structured Outputs in the API
OpenAI introduced a bit of discipline to ensure that its GPT models are precise in the data format of their responses. Specifically, the new feature makes sure that, when asked, the model responds...
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New Aug 3, 2024
Why I Finally Quit Spotify
In The New Yorker, Kyle Chayka bemoans the creeping blandness that settled into his Spotify listening experience as the company leaned into algorithmic personalization and playlists. Issues with...
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New Jul 30, 2024
Has the “AI Edge” Become a Dull Blade?
This essay is part of a series about Sentient Design, the already-here future of intelligent interfaces and AI-mediated experiences. The book Sentient Design by Josh Clark with Veronika Kindred w...
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New Jul 28, 2024
The Shape of Sentient Design
This essay is part of a series about Sentient Design, the already-here future of intelligent interfaces and AI-mediated experiences. The book Sentient Design by Josh Clark with Veronika Kindred w...
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New Jul 28, 2024
AI Is Confusing — Here’s Your Cheat Sheet
Scratching your head about diffusion models versus frontier models versus foundation models? Don’t know a token from a transformer? Jay Peters assembled a helpful glo...
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New Jul 28, 2024
Turning the Tables on AI
Oliver Reichenstein shares strategies for using AI to elevate your own writing instead of handing the job entirely to the robots. (This rhymes nicely with the core principle of Sentient Design: ampl...
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New Jul 28, 2024
Doctors Use A.I. Chatbots to Help Fight Insurance Denials
In The New York Times, Teddy Rosenbluth reports on doctor...
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New Jul 28, 2024
Still Trying to Sound Smart About AI? The Boss Is, Too
There’s a lot of “ready, fire, aim” in the industry right now as execs feel pressure to move on AI, even though most admit they don’t have confidence in how to use it. At...
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New Jul 28, 2024
Master Design System Governance With This One Weird Trick
This article was originally published at bradfrost.com. Looking for help? If your organization needs help refining your governance process or improving your collaborative culture, get in to...
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New Jun 28, 2024
A Protopian Frontier
Take five minutes to watch A Protopian Future, an Ignite talk by Jenny Johnston. She offers a provocation to really think about and describe the future you imagine will come of the things you/we...
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New Jun 24, 2024
WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence
John Gruber shares an under-reported tidbit from Apple’s many “Apple Intelligence” reveals: The most unheralded aspect of Apple Intelligence is that the data centers Apple is building for...
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New Jun 22, 2024
A Unified Theory of F*cks
The inimitable Mandy Brown reminds us that the f*cks we have to give are a limited resource. Spend them in the right place: Why love your work? It won’t, of course, love you back. It can’t. Work i...
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Jun 21, 2024
Illuminate
Illuminate is an experimental project from Google that generates accessible, podcast-style interviews from academic papers: Illuminate is an experimental technology that uses AI to adapt co...
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Jun 21, 2024
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: M...