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?
Covid gave us a chance to read—a lot! As we prepare for the holidays (and factoring in supply chain issues and shipping delays) we thought we’d share the books that have had the most influence on our ideas about the emerging human-machine community this year.
How AI could help our reasoning when it's most flawed: aka when we're subject to cognitive biases.
Resolving a fundamental incompatibility with AI in human decision-making
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, gave a presentation at the House of Beautiful Business titled: Mind for our Minds.
Most decisions and most deciders are hybrids. Some machine, some human. The trick is to imagine all the ways that humans figure out ways around, over, and through the machine when what they really want is to make the decision themselves even if it means sacrificing accuracy.
In this episode, we talk with Jevin West, assistant professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, co-founder of the DataLab, director of the Center for an Informed Public and co-author of the acclaimed book, Calling Bullshit.
In this episode, we talk with Michael Bungay Stanier, coach extraordinaire and well-known author of the best selling books The Coaching Habit and The Advice Trap.
In this episode, we talk wtih visualization expert, Mollie Pettit.
We speak with Josh Lovejoy who is perhaps the most experienced out there in the field of human-centered AI design. At the time of our recording, Josh was Head of Design for Microsoft’s Ethics & Society team.
In this episode, we talk with Kate O’Neill, founder of KO Insights and author of the Tech Humanist.
In this episode, we talk with Tania Lombrozo, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Psychology and director of the Concepts & Cognition Lab at Princeton University.
We talked with Steven Sloman, Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences at Brown University who, along with Philip Fernbach, popularized this idea in a book called the Knowledge Illusion.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
