This week we are leaning into multiple metaphors: AI as a mirror, UX design as a window or room, and life as information. Plus: read about Michael Levin's upcoming presentation at the Imagining Summit, Helen's Book of the Week, and our upcoming events.
It’s easy to fall prey to the design illusion that because LLMs look sleek, they must be well-designed. But aesthetics alone do not equal design. As Steve Jobs once said, “Design is not just what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works.”
It’s curious that these two papers, tackling such similar ideas, came out at the same time. Is this coincidence, or does it tell us something about where the study of life and intelligence is heading?
In this episode we have a conversation with Renée Cummings, Founder & CEO of Urban AI, about the issues and opportunities for AI in urban settings.
In this episode, we open with a chat about Facebook’s acquisition of GIPHY and what the company may be trying to learn with its AI (hint: hidden meanings) and then we move on to a great conversation with Maria Axente of PWC about ethical AI at PWC and in her non-profit work with groups like UNICEF.
In this episode, we open with an opinionated chat about Facebook’s new oversight board and then we have a great conversation with Ted Kwartler, VP of Trusted AI at DataRobot. We think DataRobot is a very interesting AI company and Ted’s role is key to helping their customers with ethical AI.
In this episode, we have a conversation with Arash Rahnama, Head of Applied AI Research at Modzy
In this episode, we have a conversation with Scott Stephenson, Co-founder and CEO of Deepgram, a company which has built an end-to-end deep learning speech recognition system.
In this episode, I have the pleasure of talking with Will Griffin, Chief Ethics Officer of Hypergiant, an Austin Texas-based AI product and services company.
In this episode, I have the pleasure of interviewing Chelsea Barabas a PhD candidate at MIT’s Media Lab. We talk about her work on bias in the criminal justice system as well as her most recent work applying the concept of “studying up” from anthropology to the data science world.
In this episode, Dave interviews Helen about her recent article in Quartz, “Are AI ethicists making any difference?”
Artificiality co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, gave a presentation at the State of Oregon's Talent Summit on AI & the Future of Work.
In this episode, we dive into the paradox of explainability Why are there so many paradoxical observations in AI?
Take a listen as we take a deep dive into the paradox of personalization.
The venture industry invested more than four times as much capital in 2019 as in 2010. But while the industry invested four times the amount of capital, it only invested in twice the number of companies.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
