➕ The Conditions 134
Designing Microsoft's Copilot, A Short History of AI, ChapGPT's Privacy problem...
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User Experience
Behind the design of Microsoft’s Copilot by Jon Friedman (Corporate Vice President, Design & Research) & Kurtis Beavers (Fluent Design System Director)
How to design generative AI experiences to be truly helpful
From bullsh*t generator to ultimate copilot.
AI & Machine Learning
A Short History of Artificial Intelligence – Tracing the rise of the robot mind
In this post, Anna-Sofia Lesiv explores the major turning points that led us to this moment. Regardless of whether you’re an AI super fan watching ChatGPT’s every move, or a reluctant luddite wondering what the hell a “transformer” is, this essay is worth a read.
AI and the American Smile
How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression.
Amy Goochild has used GPT-4 to carry out Sol Lewitt’s Wall Drawings
The Wall Drawings are a series of artworks devised by Lewitt in the 1970s, which aren’t actually drawings at all but, rather, instructions for drawings.
Digital Trust
ChatGPT Has a Big Privacy Problem [via Wired]
Italy’s recent ban of Open AI’s generative text tool may just be the beginning of ChatGPT’s regulatory woes.
“Italy’s Garante believes ChatGPT has four problems under GDPR: OpenAI doesn’t have age controls to stop people under the age of 13 from using the text generation system; it can provide information about people that isn’t accurate; and people haven’t been told their data was collected. Perhaps most importantly, its fourth argument claims there is “no legal basis” for collecting people’s personal information in the massive swells of data used to train ChatGPT.”
‘ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. Here’s how we’re responding’
by Chris Moran, Guardian's head of editorial innovation
“Last month one of our journalists received an interesting email. A researcher had come across mention of a Guardian article, written by the journalist on a specific subject from a few years before. But the piece was proving elusive on our website and in search…
…Why? Because it had never been written.
Computer scientists designing the future can’t agree on what privacy means
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University wanted to create a privacy-preserving smart sensor. Then, they were accused of violating their colleagues’ privacy.
Branding
Pentagram identity for AI platform Cohere uses visual language of cells
Partners Jody Hudson-Powell and Luke Powell implement a pattern found throughout nature to suggest a blend of the synthetic and organic.
Typography
Parachute Archive Collection: a highly curated & thoroughly updated anthology of early Parachute typefaces premieres online
Aptly titled Parachute Archive Collection (PAC) this library of typefaces —originally showcased in Parachute’s 2003 font catalog— consists of "revivals of early type with historical importance, original typefaces that addressed contemporary design trends, as well as 20th-century type styles reimagined and infused with the studio’s signature type flair."