Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: microsoft

8 bookmarks tagged “microsoft

Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player "Useless"

futurism.com/msn-ai-brandon-hunter-useless
Microsoft's MSN news portal published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated article that derided Hunter as "useless" in its headline.

A Brief History of Design: How I came to appreciate Microsoft’s design roots

medium.com/microsoft-design/a-brief-history-of-design-8641bd186e00
It is easy to question everything designed before you when you join a new company. I mean, why the heck would a scroll bar be red in Windows 2.0 … what could they have possibly been thinking?! But while it may be fun and easy to criticize the past, it is crucial to ask the question “why?” To realize that those who came before were pretty damn cutting-edge, and that each design decision carries the baggage of late nights, pulled hair, teamwork, innovation, and expertise.

Mechanomorphs and the politeness of machines — Medium

medium.com/@alexislloyd/mechanomorphs-and-the-politeness-of-machines-be69fd1c7d6b
Rather than humanoid bots, we should design mechanomorphs: bots that can create a different set of expectations around how we converse with them. If we make bots more machine-like, our conversations with them can have new boundaries, creating a new space less fraught with pre-existing social norms.