Category: AI
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The salad bar theory of UX professionalism
Less, but better? Not this week.
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We named them after the humans they were replacing.
“The word ‘computer’ only really slid over to mean ‘a machine’ in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, once we started building mechanical and then electronic devices to do that work instead [of people].…
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Receipts: a brief history of the death of the web.
They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997. Wired:…
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My Glamorous Life: Bots, Books, and Betrayal
My father was an engineer who designed robots. When I first learned what he did, I imagined the Robot from “Lost in Space,” and asked him to make me one. When I turned 13, I realized…
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My father, Maurice Zeldman, and his ZGANNT software
I asked Claude to write about the career of my father, the inventor Maurice Zeldman, as if I’d written it myself. Here, with no edits by me, is what Claude said.
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This Years Model
There’s a new AI model that can render photorealistic people and products, including text and logos. Geisha With Walkman is something I tried to draw 40 years ago, but my rendering skills were simply too…
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Your opt-innie wants to talk to your opt-outtie.
Scrapers gonna scrape.
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Akismet means never having to say you’re sorry
The bots who shit in your sandbox are bigger, brassier, and better than ever!
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AI Roundup: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Pretty Cool
Pieces of the web that make differing and complementary sense of the threat and promise of AI.