User-Centered AI Weekly

Editor's thoughts

Every week, I gather the best pieces on the topics of how AI can be user-centered. Here are the week's top contents:

This week, I watched a thought-provoking discussions by Rishi Sunak and Elon Musk on Safety AI. Additionally, I jumped into a captivating paper authored by Marc Andreessen, titled "Techno-Optimist Manifesto." Moreover, I obtained a certification from Deeplearning.ai in the Generative AI Course.

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Best of the Week

Rishi Sunak & Elon Musk: Human - Centered Responsible AI

It was an interesting discussion between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and X, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk for a broad-ranging discussion covering AI, technology, and the future of human civilisation. There was a very interesting part of the discussion: Elon: It’s hard to say exactly what that moment is, but there will come a point where no job is needed... You can have a job if you wanted to have a job for personal satisfaction. But the AI would be able to do everything. I don’t know if that makes people comfortable or uncomfortable, If you wish for a magic genie, that gives you any wish you want, and there’s no limit. You don’t have those three wish limits nonsense, it’s both good and bad. One of the challenges in the future will be how do we find meaning in life.

User-Centered AI

Building Products With Generative AI | Andreessen Horowitz

If one thing is certain about generative AI, it’s that no one knows exactly how it will play out from a product or user experience perspective. Which interfaces will win out? Which tasks will be augmented by large language models (LLMs), and which ones will be completely upended by them? How will creative AI models change our expectations of what we can do with computers?

We’re at a moment not unlike the advent of the web or the smartphone. It’s clear something huge is afoot, and the early applications are fun, interesting, and somewhat obvious. We can identify the early winners. What we don’t know is what second-order applications and use cases will emerge to reshape our personal and professional lives, and who will be the companies to build them.

We recently held our annual Connect/Enterprise event and, for this very reason, artificial intelligence—particularly generative AI and LLMs—was a major topic of conversation both on and off the stage. Below are some edited highlights from this year’s speakers, where they share their thoughts, experiences, and strategies around generative AI.

Design & AI

AI as a UX Assistant - NN Group

Generative-AI bots support UX professionals by acting as content editors, research assistants, ideation partners, and design assistants. To understand how UX professionals use generative AI in their day-to-day work, we conducted a large-scale survey with more than 800 respondents. 92% of the respondents claimed they had used at least one generative AI tool; among those who used these bots for work, 63% used them at least several times per week (if not daily). The most common type of activity is text-content generation and editing.

HCAI - Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Software Is Eating the World - by Andreessen Horowitz

Lies We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything. We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology. We are told to be pessimistic. The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares. We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world. We are told to be miserable about the future. Truth Our civilization was built on technology. Our civilization is built on technology. Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential. For hundreds of years, we properly glorified this – until recently. We can advance to a far superior way of living, and of being. We have the tools, the systems, the ideas. We have the will. It is time, once again, to raise the technology flag. It is time to be Techno-Optimists.

Mixed Reality & Spatial Design

About this design guidance - Mixed Reality | Microsoft Learn

This guidance is written by Microsoft designers, developers, program managers, and researchers. Work from our writers spans holographic devices, including HoloLens, immersive devices, and HP Windows Mixed Reality headsets. We recommend thinking about this article as a set of topics for Windows head-mounted design. We're entering a tremendously exciting new era of computing right along with you. Breakthroughs in head-mounted displays, spatial sound, sensors, environmental awareness, input, and 3D graphics lead and challenge us to define new types of experiences. The new frontier is dramatically more personal, intuitive, immersive, and contextual.