Episode 35: AI and the Future of Design and Development with Zach Pousman

AI and the Future of Design and Development with Zach Pousman
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Summary
What does AI mean for the future of design, development? Can I be replaced by an AI algorithm? Today, we talk to Zach Pousman, from the consultancy Helpfully. Zach thinks a lot about artificial intelligence and how it might impact the future of different knowledge work. It's impossible to talk about AI without talking about the ethics of AI projects and how AI might affect the larger society. We'll talk about why AI started with chess and moved to facial recognition, what AI might and might not be able to do in the future, how we might deal with it, and how that will change the way you work.
Guest
Zach Pousman (https://twitter.com/thinky): Principal at Helpfully (http://www.helpfully.com/).
Notes
02:28 - What is AI?
05:18 - AI Potentially Changing the Way Designers and Developers Work
11:40 - Development Biases and Algorithmic Failures
Weapons of Math Destruction (https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-Destruction-Increases-Inequality/dp/0553418831/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523401051&sr=8-1&keywords=weapons+of+math+destructions)
Carina C. Zona: Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znwWYR1mzzw)
16:12 - Taking Novice Performance to Expert Levels
All Websites Look The Same (http://www.novolume.co.uk/blog/all-websites-look-the-same/)
18:56 - Susceptible Knowledge Work at Risk Due to AI and Ethics; AI as “Parlor Tricks”
Reddit Thread: Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I’ve automated my job? (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6k419t/is_it_unethical_for_me_to_not_tell_my_employer/)
McKinsey Article: What AI can and can’t do (yet) for your business (https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-analytics/our-insights/what-ai-can-and-cant-do-yet-for-your-business)
I got the tic-tac-toe story from this tweet (https://twitter.com/janellecshane/status/974132303315136513), which references this paper "The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution" with more examples (https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453v1)
Loebner Prize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebner_Prize)
The ELIZA Program (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA)
The Stanford Question Answering Dataset (https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/)
tf-idf (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf–idf)
33:06 - AI Vs. Humans and Legislation
Google Translate (https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/22/googles-ai-translation-tool-seems-to-have-invented-its-own-secret-internal-language/)
When an AI finally kills someone, who will be responsible? (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610459/when-an-ai-finally-kills-someone-who-will-be-responsible/)
When Luddites Attack (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/06/404701816/episode-621-when-luddites-attack)
43:09 - Human Skills That Aren’t Replaceable (4C’s: Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity) Special Guest: Zach Pousman.

AI and the Future of Design and Development with Zach Pousman

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Summary

What does AI mean for the future of design, development? Can I be replaced by an AI algorithm? Today, we talk to Zach Pousman, from the consultancy Helpfully. Zach thinks a lot about artificial intelligence and how it might impact the future of different knowledge work. It's impossible to talk about AI without talking about the ethics of AI projects and how AI might affect the larger society. We'll talk about why AI started with chess and moved to facial recognition, what AI might and might not be able to do in the future, how we might deal with it, and how that will change the way you work.

Guest

Zach Pousman: Principal at Helpfully.

Notes

02:28 - What is AI?

05:18 - AI Potentially Changing the Way Designers and Developers Work

11:40 - Development Biases and Algorithmic Failures

Weapons of Math Destruction
Carina C. Zona: Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm

16:12 - Taking Novice Performance to Expert Levels

All Websites Look The Same

18:56 - Susceptible Knowledge Work at Risk Due to AI and Ethics; AI as “Parlor Tricks”

Reddit Thread: Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I’ve automated my job?
McKinsey Article: What AI can and can’t do (yet) for your business
I got the tic-tac-toe story from this tweet, which references this paper "The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution" with more examples
Loebner Prize
The ELIZA Program
The Stanford Question Answering Dataset
tf-idf

33:06 - AI Vs. Humans and Legislation

Google Translate

When an AI finally kills someone, who will be responsible?

When Luddites Attack

43:09 - Human Skills That Aren’t Replaceable (4C’s: Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity)

Special Guest: Zach Pousman.