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?
This was the question asked this week by a Princeton comp-sci professor.
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, presented an AI Masterclass at the House of Beautiful Business.
Why the outcry about Google's gathering of personal health data? There’s no way of knowing whether this data will be used in unethical ways. Some of these risks are theoretical but the stakes are high. Right now, we do just have to trust them.
How not to manage in the age of machine employees (and partner machine employees).
If you’re at all enmeshed in the tech press, the big issue for the last couple of weeks has been Facebook’s inability to get out of the huge hole it’s dug for itself around misuse of its platform, political ad targeting and lies.
The gaming industry confronts an AI designed specifically to turn players into big spenders.
Facial recognition is facing a backlash and Amazon is an easy target.
Facebook's AI chief scientist oversimplifies humans. Again.
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, gave a presentation on AI and Marketing for the Global AI Advertising Summit at The New York Times.
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, provided a presentation and interactive workshop on AI & Education at the Headstarter Network's Tech & Early Ed Catalyst Summit.
Artificiality Co-founders, Helen and Dave Edwards, gave a presentation at the House of Beautiful Business titled: Intimacy in the Age of AI.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
