Harry Sayers

Human-Centered AI | Product and Design lead & Engineer

[Harry Sayers @theharrysayers]

Take a gander here -> https://t.co/ADW90HDPVe

[Harry Sayers @theharrysayers]

LLMs are not a panacea so stop hooking them up to your products and systems like they're a cheat code.

LLMs add a huge surface for unreliable, unsafe and untrustworthy experiences.

Can they be useful? Yes
Should they be the default? No
Are narrow models better for a lot of tasks? Yes

New little writings in thread (Actually written by me not Claude)

[Harry Sayers @theharrysayers]

Link to full newsletter - https://t.co/NFiIV3IYsv

[Harry Sayers @theharrysayers]

1/ In 1970 Marvin Minsky told Life magazine we'd have a machine with the intelligence of an average human within three to eight years.

His follow up: "If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets."

55 years on, we're chasing the same goal.

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4/ The obsession with AGI is a distraction.

The real opportunity is using AI to do what we never could before.

Full piece 👇

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@rorysutherland There is a point where models are all of a certain quality and it is going to be marginal gains… then the distinguishing factor is design.

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https://t.co/lL6FxJ47B6

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I've started a little writing for my new newsletter, called https://t.co/D5Rhw7vRvP, focused on Human-Centered AI, which I've immersed myself in for the last 2 years and realised is the way if I/we don't want our kids to grow up in some strange Ridley Scott dystopia.

The first edition looks at some common mistakes I've seen in AI products and systems.

https://t.co/nW7buJYF7G

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I see dozens of new AI products released every week and most of them seem to be answering the same question, "how can we automate what a human currently does?" This feels like a massive waste of a technology that could do good. value > efficiency.

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What are the best design books you’ve ever read? I’ve read most of the common one’s like The design of everyday things, Don’t make me think etc

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AI is really useful for quickly designing and hashing an idea out for prototyping and testing.

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Vector design tools like Figma, Sketch and Axure are great for communicating ideas but they're poor for designing products into production. UX'ers need better tools hence why @rivveo exists so product teams can work more efficiently and effectively.

https://t.co/4bmmkjShDt

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@OliEdis @ReactVisionXR It would be cool to build design software on top of something like @ReactVisionXR… would make XR so much more accessible.

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Built this component with one prompt while building and testing @rivveo new AI Blocks... Still got lots of room for improvement... Design is about to change for the better. 😎

[Harry Sayers @theharrysayers]

@DannPetty I’m building this with @rivveo … AI blocks will be built soon… happy to give you a tour. :)

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@eliana_jordan I’m building https://t.co/9WV4LKlSr6 a code based design and prototyping tool!

[Harry Sayers @theharrysayers]

@OliEdis This is cool! Would love to start something in the AR space so many applications that can do good!

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A little airline search component designed in Rivveo with ⁦@reactjs⁩ & MUI ⁦@GoogleDesign⁩