Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred join the Design Better podcast to talk about intelligent interfaces beyond chat, intergenerational design, and what designers can learn from Wile E. Coyote.| Big Medium
Toby Ord’s analysis suggests that an AI agent’s chance of success drops off exponentially the longer a task takes. Some agents perform better than others, but the overall pattern holds—and may be predictable for any individual agent: This empirical regularity allows us to estimate the success rate for an agent at different task lengths. And the fact that this model is a good fit for the data is suggestive of the underlying causes of failure on longer tasks — that they involve increasi...| Big Medium - Full Feed
What are the “values” of AI? How do they manifest in conversation? How consistent are they? Can they be manipulated? A study by the Societal Impacts group at Anthropic (maker of Claude) tried to find out. Claude and other models are trained to observe certain rules—human values and etiquette: At Anthropic, we’ve attempted to shape the values of our AI model, Claude, to help keep it aligned with human preferences, make it less likely to engage in dangerous behaviors, and generally make...| Big Medium - Full Feed
Michal Malewicz explores what happens as AI gets better at core designer skills—not just visuals and words, but taste, experience, and research. He points out that automation tends to devalue the stuff it creates—in both interest and attention. Execution, effort, and craft are what draw interest and create value, he says. Once the thing is machine-made, there’s a brief novelty of automation—and then emotional response falls flat: “The ‘niceness’ of the image is no longer celebra...| Big Medium - Full Feed
A study by MIT Media Lab finds that heavy use of chatbots travels with loneliness, emotional dependence, and other negative social impacts. Overall, higher daily usage–across all modalities and conversation types–correlated with higher loneliness, dependence, and problematic use, and lower socialization. Exploratory analyses revealed that those with stronger emotional attachment tendencies and higher trust in the AI chatbot tended to experience greater loneliness and emotional dependence,...| Big Medium - Full Feed
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred explore Sentient Design—and the AI opportunities for designers to create new, radically adaptive experiences.| Big Medium
Peek behind the curtain to see how we created the radically adaptive interface for Sentient Scenes. It’s a playful exploration of the serious possibilities of Sentient Design and AI-mediated experiences.| Big Medium
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred lead a three-part video series to introduce the principles and practice of Sentient Design and AI-mediated experiences.| Big Medium