FEATURE
3 things Google learned from professional creatives about their hopes for AI
Google's Responsible AI User Experience (RAIUX) and Technology & Society teams spoke to 17 creative professionals to discuss their work, identify their concerns with gen AI, and discover ways to design products to support their needs. This post has the top three things they learned...
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Moderna's CEO Says Staff Should Consult ChatGPT 20 Times a Day
Assuming a typical eight-hour workday, that means the CEO expects his staff to ask OpenAI's chatbots questions at least two, maybe three times every hour--an AI interaction rate that could easily, with some back-of-the-napkin estimates, eat up 10 to 15 minutes of work time each work hour. Maybe more.
So what will all that employee-AI interaction do for Moderna? The Wall Street Journal quotes Bancel saying AI is going to be used to "reinvent all of Moderna's business processes, in science, in legal, in manufacturing--everywhere."
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CREATIVITY
People don't like the Apple ad about crushing all of human creativity into an iPad
Apple's latest commercial for the iPad Pro shows every implement of human creativity to date under a crusher, utterly demolished, only to show the new iPad as a suitable replacement for… all of it.
More about a few of the reactions to it - including the ad in reverse...
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CURIOSITY
Curiosity: Cat-astrophe or Catalyst?
“Curiosity killed the cat” is only one-half of that old saying. “but satisfaction brought it back.” is the forgotten second part.
Some tips to avoid curiosity-stiflers and encourage curiosity
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OBSERVATION
The Promise of Health Chatbots Has Already Failed
Chatbots are unreliable entities that have famously “hallucinated”, but the stakes are much higher when they amplify dubious health claims churned out by influencers and alternative medicine practitioners who stand to profit. Worse, the bots create confusion by mixing wellness propaganda with actual research.
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VISUAL
Steve Jobs infamous design that was hated by Apple employees and loyalists
Not every design decision made by Steve Jobs was loved by everyone. Remember Apple’s skeuomorphic approach to user interface design that peaked more than a decade ago? Here's the story of what inspired that...
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Everyone will want to use Photoshop's upcoming People Distractions Tool
The standout sneak from Adobe Max is a tool that'll be useful for everyone, not just professionals – one that can remove a sea of people from the foreground of a photo. Looking forward to this - years ago, I had to ask a graphic designer to get rid of the crowds around the Mona Lisa, apart from my wife and me.
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INSPIRATION
Millionaire founder: This is the No. 1 skill young people need to thrive in the AI era—it’s not coding
There is one skill all young people need to thrive in the workplace — today and in the future — and it’s been around for thousands of years. “If I could give my 13- and 16-year-old one competence that I think would stand the test of time, it’d be storytelling,” millionaire entrepreneur Scott Galloway told CNBC Make It
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