I appreciate that you are urgently calling upon UX professionals in this emerging field. Many UX professionals I know are already exploring the AI field and are seeking the right opportunity to really understand how to apply their skills. There is an urgent need to guide and develop UX professionals in applied AI and ML. Doing so will help us shape this technology in the right way and ensure that it benefits users from an experiential standpoint, with a focus on safety and responsibility. In my opinion, literacy in ML and AI should be a must-have skill, even more so than programming has been touted to be in the past decade. Before people begin programming and building AI applications, it is crucial that they understand what needs to be programmed and what data needs to be fed to the machine. As user experience professionals, we have a big responsibility in this area. It is concerning that we are not making more noise about this yet.
This was feasible 30 years ago when I was young(ish)...
@jacobnielsen Your perpetual youthful spirit, evidenced by your relatable communication, is truly admirable in my humble opinion. Thank you so much for sharing this enlightening post, and your impassioned plea to rally and take action immediately reflects your unwavering commitment and love for our shared endeavor. Your consistent desire to pass the torch to capable successors does not go unnoticed. Your contributions are genuinely valued and deeply appreciated.
The UX workforce and corporate realities therein are not accurately reflected in this article. UX professionals are far from complacent. This introductory statement makes your research naive of the corporate realities UX professionals face when attempting to advance a new technology. If the author truly has worked in the field, the article would state that only thin slices of invention and creativity surface from the efforts of UX practitioners. Corporate management in the largest institutions has, as it often does, put a heavy blanket on progress. Laying progress on the doorstep of a foot soldier? Glass house.
I love the call to action and highlighting the urgency for UX designers to expand their horizons and get comfortable with AI. It's the old vs. the new. Adapt, or stay behind and get squashed.
This is such a timely article. I'd like to read on the latest research on AI user experience. Who are the two female and male colleagues you referred to in the quote below?
"Instead, the field is wide open for somebody else to go all-in researching and understanding the AI user experience and define our field for the future. I have my eye on two women and one man with strong potential, but the opportunity is open to anyone ready to commit fully."
How does prompt engineering hurt AI? Do we know enough/have enough research to say that? On the upside, the learning curve is minimal, prompting allows for user control, and prompts can be shared easily. If you don't like the result, you can try again. There are easy-to-follow tutorials on how to write better prompts. What am I missing?
You are advocating the adoption of piracy. You are advocating the execution in cold blood of entire creative industries. You are legitimizing the intellectual property rights heist of the century. For gods sake man, wake up.
I hear you, but this (AI) train left the station last year. The storm already hit. I think Jakob is trying to help us successfully navigate this new reality.
I appreciate that you are urgently calling upon UX professionals in this emerging field. Many UX professionals I know are already exploring the AI field and are seeking the right opportunity to really understand how to apply their skills. There is an urgent need to guide and develop UX professionals in applied AI and ML. Doing so will help us shape this technology in the right way and ensure that it benefits users from an experiential standpoint, with a focus on safety and responsibility. In my opinion, literacy in ML and AI should be a must-have skill, even more so than programming has been touted to be in the past decade. Before people begin programming and building AI applications, it is crucial that they understand what needs to be programmed and what data needs to be fed to the machine. As user experience professionals, we have a big responsibility in this area. It is concerning that we are not making more noise about this yet.
This was feasible 30 years ago when I was young(ish)...
@jacobnielsen Your perpetual youthful spirit, evidenced by your relatable communication, is truly admirable in my humble opinion. Thank you so much for sharing this enlightening post, and your impassioned plea to rally and take action immediately reflects your unwavering commitment and love for our shared endeavor. Your consistent desire to pass the torch to capable successors does not go unnoticed. Your contributions are genuinely valued and deeply appreciated.
The UX workforce and corporate realities therein are not accurately reflected in this article. UX professionals are far from complacent. This introductory statement makes your research naive of the corporate realities UX professionals face when attempting to advance a new technology. If the author truly has worked in the field, the article would state that only thin slices of invention and creativity surface from the efforts of UX practitioners. Corporate management in the largest institutions has, as it often does, put a heavy blanket on progress. Laying progress on the doorstep of a foot soldier? Glass house.
I love the call to action and highlighting the urgency for UX designers to expand their horizons and get comfortable with AI. It's the old vs. the new. Adapt, or stay behind and get squashed.
This is such a timely article. I'd like to read on the latest research on AI user experience. Who are the two female and male colleagues you referred to in the quote below?
"Instead, the field is wide open for somebody else to go all-in researching and understanding the AI user experience and define our field for the future. I have my eye on two women and one man with strong potential, but the opportunity is open to anyone ready to commit fully."
How does prompt engineering hurt AI? Do we know enough/have enough research to say that? On the upside, the learning curve is minimal, prompting allows for user control, and prompts can be shared easily. If you don't like the result, you can try again. There are easy-to-follow tutorials on how to write better prompts. What am I missing?
You are advocating the adoption of piracy. You are advocating the execution in cold blood of entire creative industries. You are legitimizing the intellectual property rights heist of the century. For gods sake man, wake up.
I hear you, but this (AI) train left the station last year. The storm already hit. I think Jakob is trying to help us successfully navigate this new reality.
lol no. Have you not followed the lawsuits and regulatory action lately?
I have been paying attention but do honestly think this technology will be stopped by regulators and policymakers?
Weird threading but ok.
The tech? God no.
Recklessly released models? That's already happened.
But regulators are adressing:
- deepfakes etc with NO FRAUD Act
- Microsoft+OpenAI with EU Antitrust
- Large scale copyright infringement: FTC
- Data leakages: FTC
- Dozen lawsuits against generative AI: https://www.mishcon.com/generative-ai-intellectual-property-cases-and-policy-tracker
- Biometry, privacy, etc violations: over 150 legal processes in progress: twitter.com/josourcing
Johan is the bug.
Are you paying any attention to anything that’s going on? Data licensing and royalties. My property is not your free raw material.
I guess not. I'd be happy to be wrong. Let's see what happens!