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?
Our conversations with some of the great minds at the intersection of minds meeting machines.
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.
In this episode, we have a conversation with Rana el Kaliouby, CEO and Co-Founder of Affectiva, about emotional AI, bias in AI and her new book, Girl Decoded.
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
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