Professor, co-author of Designing for People: An introduction to human factors engineering
Madison, WI
Joined August 2009
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Will Artificial Intelligence Kill College Writing?
“my childhood fantasy: a machine that could do my homework at the press of a button. …GPT-3, has arrived. It threatens many aspects of university education — above all, college writing.” chronicle.com/article/will-a…
Tesla’s shoddy wheel symbolizes everything that’s wrong with the company - Fast Company
“Elon Musk is vowing to deliver the world’s first completely autonomous car, all while he’s still figuring out how to build the steering wheel.” apple.news/AmfOM0AA5ST6Z2uBw…
vox.com/23178764/florida-us1… via @matter
Stroads: mixed use infrastructure that combines the functions of streets and roads to kill pedestrians.
John Lee retweeted
I had so many ideas for the keyboard for the original iPhone. xitter.cf/kocienda/status/153995…
Excited to be soon using @flowritecom to supercharge my everyday writing with AI. I just joined their waitlist: 👇 flowrite.com/?ref=33cgx6
via @nytimes
“The most heated debate about large language models does not revolve around the question of whether they can be trained to understand the world. Instead, it revolves around whether they can be trusted at all.” nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magaz…
Built environment guides child autonomy:
In Japan, parents accompany 10 and 11 year old children for less than 15% of their trips, compared to 65% in the United States
The cost of applying - Marginal REVOLUTION.
“Before you even start applying for an NSF grant, you should probably read the 79 pages of instructions. The NIH helpfully provides a 10-part instructional video series” marginalrevolution.com/margi…
As a nurse faces prison for a deadly error, her colleagues worry: Could I be next?
“Vanderbilt was instructing nurses to use overrides to overcome cabinet delays and constant technical problems ….” apple.news/A2jU-SyUlTJW6fiFV…
John Lee retweeted
When I design software, I often use Keynote on my Mac, but I don’t use it as a presentation tool. I use it as a tool to think. The slideshow is a handy byproduct, but the primary output is sketching ideas and how they fit together.
AI-synthesized faces are indistinguishable from real faces and more trustworthy | PNAS
Past the Turing test and the uncanny valley deep fake faces are more trusted than actual faces. pnas.org/content/119/8/e2120…
adjacentpossible.substack.co…
Micromorts—standard unit of mortality risk—1 per million chance of death.
1–riding in a car for 2 hours
7–running a marathon
8–skydiving
30–per week risk of Covid for kids
54,000–per week risk of Covid for unvaccinated over 70
37,932–climbing Mt Everest
When should someone trust an AI assistant’s predictions? | MIT News | “Teaching users about an AI’s strengths and weaknesses is essential to producing positive human-AI joint outcomes." news.mit.edu/2022/ai-predict…
John Lee retweeted
“the staggering collapse of its ambitious artificial intelligence effort that failed to live up to its promises to transform everything from drug discovery to cancer care.” statnews.com/2022/01/21/ibm-…
John Lee retweeted
At the moment, I'm reading Ayelet Even-Ezra's beautifully illustrated and designed book Lines of Thought. It's a fascinating look at how medieval scholars used horizontal tree diagrams to think more effectively. 1/
How to read | Robert Heaton.
“If you’re reading purely for fun, go and have as much fun as you possibly can and never look back. But if you’re reading for knowledge, be aware that this is quite a different thing.” robertheaton.com/2018/06/25/…
John Lee retweeted
The webinar on this is tomorrow, 1pm Eastern. Come watch Mica give the debrief and the rest of us struggle through your great questions on human-AI teaming. The slides alone are an amazing feat of summarizing ~100 pgs of material
A prepublication copy of "Human AI Teaming: State of the Art and Research Needs" has been posted. Highlights from the report with a link to download the full report are available here: nap.edu/resource/26355/AFRL.…