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Ted Underwood 29 June 2023 A graduate student who fell asleep in 1982 and woke up in 2022 might see large language models as a triumph for cultural theory. It is hard to imagine a clearer vindicati…

Since the dawn of the mobile web, digital designers have been asking copywriters to shorten their text. “It’s too much […]

A neural-network-based artificial intelligence outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human intelligence.

This NIHR Evidence Collection brings together 10 interventions in 5 key areas using Artificial Intelligence technology that could support healthcare professionals

Recent history gives us a powerful and definitive reason for hope

We're highlighting ten of the best talks from 2023 by from some of our favorite thinkers on how AI can help build creative technologies and shape more human-centered experiences.

Generative-AI bots support UX professionals by acting as content editors, research assistants, ideation partners, and design assistants.

To get a crude answer to this question, we took 5000 questions from Manifold markets that were resolved after GPT-4’s current knowledge cutoff of Jan…

"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."

In 5 years, agents will be able to give health care advice, tutor students, do your shopping, help workers be far more productive, and much more

OpenAI is launching a new program to encourage organizations to contribute data -- including text and images -- to train future AI models.

More and more, people are building products as thin wrappers over other models, especially LLMs. This can cause major issues, and there is a better way.

It's SAG-AFTRA's strike and victory

Introduction How many years will pass before transformative AI is built? Three people who have thought about this question a lot are Ajeya Cotra from…

UX Strategies for Developing Empowering Systems for Diverse Users

They might’ve arrived at their AI extinction risk conclusions in good faith, but AI Doomers are being exploited by others with different intentions.

Apple’s stunning support for right-to-repair isn’t the whole story.

If this LLM is so damn smart, why can't it count how many fingers I'm holding up?

Prioritizing AI may marginalize research methods known for capturing people’s voices.

Researchers show LLMs respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context

ChatGPT can be a powerful tool to assist you in the UX design process. We share our seven favorite prompts to leverage ChatGPT for UX design.

The work by the company’s research division shows less expensive technology can still have advanced features, without really increasing in size.

Good news on paper, but the devil is in the details

Browsers are hugely load-bearing in the Web's architecture, and yet they haven't changed very much in quite a while. If the Web is indeed for user agency, we should take a hard look at our user agents to see if they might not need improvement.

"The usefulness of a product is the combination of its utility and usability." It's beyond question that generative AI has incredible utility, but to get next-level adoption, the interface usabilty needs work.

OpenAI’s developer keynote was exciting, both because AI was exciting, and because OpenAI has the potential to be a meaningful consumer tech company.

Innovation required humility about the future and openness to what might be possible; Biden’s executive order proscribing AI development is the opposite, blocking progress and hindering the s…

Meta believes openly sharing research will push the technology forward.