Ritesh Kanchi

cs & hci phd @harvard @accenture • intelligent user interfaces for accessibility (and for fun, cs ed) • prev @uwcse • WWDC Scholar

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i went to the matisse exhibit at sfmoma (which was very cool) then came across the google ai thing (which was extremely not cool ☹️) https://t.co/PaJkZ55Of2

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is the frontier in the room with us

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people: design taste is what separates us from ai! you must develop taste to make your design stand out …this is essential in the “ai age”

also people: what if ai could do taste?? who cares let it go wild

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everyone gave figma so much shit for it but when pixelmator pro (among other apple apps) got it, i didn't read a peep

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i hope that we've all learned for the (2nd? 3rd?) time that floating sidebars ain't it

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"...they're deaf and blind. They cannot perceive anything else about what's going on."

what a odd framing (odd is putting it mildly)

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Mira Murati says human-AI collaboration needs models that can listen while they think:

"The types of models that we work with today, they're very turn-based. You talk, they talk, then they go off and think."

"While they're thinking, it's almost like they're deaf and blind. They cannot perceive anything else about what's going on."

"By contrast, our interactions with each other are very rich. There is a lot of information in our interactions when we are silent, when we're thinking, when we're interrupting one another."

"Interaction models are able to capture all of this nuance. They're not turn-based. They're more like time-based interaction, where they're continuously taking in audio, text, video, and continuously providing output."

"This enables you to catch things like interruptions and simultaneous speech, and really create a rich, high bandwidth interaction between humans and machines."

@miramurati at Bloomberg Tech live with @emilychangtv

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i think we should add "ai" to the end of all nonprofits names at this rate

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https://t.co/3HmFpnEWxo

looks familiar !

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ultimate difficulty: a commencement that doesn’t mention ai but instead celebrates students and their successes in this trying time

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i *love* that my twitter feed is half (perhaps, unsolicited!) takes on the hgsu strike and whether to treat the phd like a job

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the new smell for vibe coded UI is an egregious use of space mono

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well this is...something. a year of extension for web accessibility compliance is both good and bad i suppose

https://t.co/5HoclqX8V6

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it's prob already been said, but the slack replacement of :) to🙂 is really passive aggressive imo

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ayn thor with the 3ds graphics packs…ig i know what im doing on the flight to chi

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won’t be at wwdc this year :/ but will be in sf this summer, so will probably be at a community event or two!

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https://t.co/5HQnjDQWHD

i was wondering what the impact of "vibe coding" would be on web accessibility at large; I guess we have proof now, and it ain't great

pages are becoming more complex, using aria wrong, and accessibility is getting worse after years of improvement :(

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who isn't developing the most [adjective ending in -ed] [adjective ending in -al] intelligence in the [place] right now

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When Scaling Isn’t Enough: Toward Durable Accessibility https://t.co/heRK91a3fH

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this cannot be the state of macos...a 16-inch MacBook should not have truncation on the maps app in full screen

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i don’t know if these guys know what judgement and taste is if they relegate it to a machine but what do i know

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crazy that the people who have the most to gain from ai are the ones telling everyone else to jump on board or be left behind (especially the folks with AI a dozen times in their bio)

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there are too many articles on my feed how do i turn them off