The prominent design consultancy acquires Datascope, a Chicago-based data science company, to help merge machine learning and human-centered design. (more…)

The Alphabet unit plans to expand its voice-based assistant beyond its own hardware at this week's I/O conference... (more…)

The paper "Imagination-Augmented Agents for Deep Reinforcement Learning" is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06203 Out Patreon page with the detail... (more…)

I’ve designed two chatbot products in the last 1.5 years. The first was smart and slow. The second is “dumb” and fast. Both intend to be smart and fast. I’ll get to the benefits, drawbacks, and…...

Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future. (more…)