Federal pressure may force design education to rethink its identity

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Why an earnings test raises uncomfortable questions about art, professional practice, and the value of a degree. Image source: Adobe Stock The Price of a Degree The federal government has decided to ask a question higher education has long avoided. What is a degree worth? Under the U.S. Department of Education’s new earnings-accountability framework, undergraduate programs will be … Weiterlesen

How to use vector embeddings in AEO

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A vector embedding is a numerical representation created by an embedding model. The model converts text into a list of numbers that can be compared with other vectors, helping a retrieval system find passages with similar meaning even when they use different words. Semantic retrieval is one tool AI systems can use to find source material; modern retrieval can also combine semantic search with keyword search and other relevance signals.

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The economics of attention in the age of AI

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When machines pay attention, what deserves ours? AI filtering the information reaching us, shaping the economics of human attention. AI-generated visual, Aurélie Radom © For decades, digital products competed for our attention. The web put information everywhere, social networks turned it into a constant stream, and smartphones made it always accessible, making attention the scarce resource. Entire … Weiterlesen

How to de-slopify your designs

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Tips for anyone who vibecodes. All images in this post are my original work. As AI slop continues to inundate our everyday lives, I have come to the following conclusions — People can identify slop. People dislike slop. People don’t know how to de-slopify their slop. Put another way, it is relatively easy to recognize bad design, but it … Weiterlesen

Regulating AI, Quantifying stress, The variance problem

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Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Congress is still writing in waterfall, stuck in a world that is quickly passing them by. It wants one comprehensive (dare I say beautiful) AI bill, fully specified, passed once, ideally after everyone agrees, which is to say never. The internet’s builders would have found that laughable. They governed a … Weiterlesen