These days, conversational agents seem to be serving up remarkably authentic responses alongside sophisticated recommendations, while also saving everyone time and money. Most people even seem to like them. So, what’s the catch — and how do we make them better? Picture this: there is a magic worker in our midst, who can help you… Continue reading In chatbots we (mostly) trust

In the Shadow of Decline and Collapse: Part 2 Publication front cover When authour, environmentalist, and columnist for The Guardian, George Monbiot wrote Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, his question long preceded the recent catastrophic climate events witnessed over the past number of years. Within the book, he predicted the inevitable spate… Continue reading Peering through smoke as the planet burns

Over the past year, there’s been an explosion of image generation tools, like VQGAN+CLIP, Midjourney, DALL·E, and Stable Diffusion, enabling artists to generate images from text prompts. These tools offered new and often strange forms of artistic expression — either as interesting stand-alone visuals or poetic prompt+image combinations. In the early days, the results were… Continue reading Beyond AI Art: Image generation for broader creative applications

Raising the awareness of teams with internal and simple in order to develop more accessible products and services Image by Unsplash The great challenge of creating accessible products and services goes beyond technical difficulties and budgets: one must first focus on creating a more mature mentality about user experience in the collaborators of the product/project.… Continue reading How to build a culture of accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in companies

A systems viewpoint and how self-organizing principles can help. Photo by Jason Goodman on Unsplash Micromanagement… It feels like a four-letter word. Something heavily denounced in the gospels of management self-help. A known killer to creativity and the creative team. And yet, it is still so rampant. How can this be? And, how can we… Continue reading How Micromanagement Hurts Creativity