The one about waymo, the olympics, open-source victories, and gen ai and ux.
Is Waymo safe?
Waymo just opened its waiting list to everyone in San Fran. However, there is an ongoing investigation into accidents these vehicles have and please remember this about all autonomous vehicles: their success is predicated on optimized urban roadways and strongly geofenced locations. That's a lot of infrastructure to grapple with before this can become a reality for anyone except San Fran residents. In the meantime, remember that their testing doesn't seem to catch a lot of the big issues.
How will Peacock be using AI for the Olympics?
Peacock is very excited and is announcing it as a key differentiator in broadcasting. The comments on the article in the Times don't sound too impressed however. One commenter known as "Bay Area 101" writes:
Can I buy an A.I. that will watch the Games for me, too; perhaps a brain implant that will give me all the joys, sorrows, and memories of having watched 1,296 hours of sports without having to turn on the tv?
That way I can finally claim to be successful at multi-tasking while going about engaging in productive activities.
Can open source LLMs beat Open AI 4o?
According to this preprint under review it seems that open source MoA (mixture of agents) models are beating them hands down. Open source FTW!
Will Figma's AI UI design tools put an end to UI designers?
The results of their tool have been causing a stir but so is the source of their training data. Apparently their weather app UI generation always looked like Apple's. If you prefer a more objective approach to the future of GAI and UX/UI design here is a good lit review of what is on the horizon.
Sarah Perez
