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?
Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman is the one time I would like to be on jury duty.
An inteview with Angel Acosta, founder of the Acosta Institute.
This week: Generative AI's Undesirable Unpredictability, Sensemaking & AI, Meta-Prompting, Doug Belshaw: Serendipity Surface & AI, Pro: Conversing with AI, Part 1-3, and Pro: February Update.
Explore all digitized human knowledge by exploring with generative AI. Part 3 in our How to Use Generative AI series.
Developing the skill to craft effective prompts is a critical aspect of working with generative AI. It's about understanding what you want, knowing how to articulate that desire in a way the machine understands, and strategically using the AI's strengths to your advantage.
How to go beyond prompting and develop your conversational AI skills. Now, as more AI collaboration is designed inside of applications, do you still need to learn how to prompt? If you want to get the most out of AI, we would say, yes.
An interview with Doug Belshaw about serendipity surface & AI.
Slides and videos from our February 2024 research update for Artificiality Pro
This week: New research and product previews from Apple, Google, and OpenAI; an interview with Richard Kerris of NVIDIA, crafting better promtps, an interview with Tyler Marghetis, and an exploration of generative AI and flow.
An interview with Richard Kerris, Vice President of Developer Relations and GM of Media & Entertainment at NVIDIA, about AI, creators, and developers.
Today, we’re making a change and, in a sailor's terms, yelling out: Jibe Ho! Our jibe is to change the pace of our publishing. Starting now, we will be releasing Artificiality on a weekly basis.
An interview with about the lulls and leaps of human imagination with Tyler Marghetis, Assistant Professor of Cognitive & Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
