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 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?”
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 Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
