Mike KuniavskyManifesting objects with wordsYesterday I got ChatGPT to make me a physical object. I got it to generate the key software description of a simple penguin, which I…6d ago6d ago
Mike KuniavskyApplied Distributed Cognition using foundation models and biosensing (a research agenda)I had the honor of giving a talk at UC Davis’ Center for Mind and Brain, at the invitation of Prof. Lee Miller and his Speech…Jun 31Jun 31
Mike Kuniavsky“Designing Emerging Technologies” and Foundation Models as a prototyping toolLast Friday I had the privilege of being invited to be a guest critic for the final projects at the “Designing Emerging Technologies” class…May 6May 6
Mike KuniavskyPersonal Explorations in Distributed Cognition with Foundation Models[5/9/24 addendum: as Leonard Lin points out, how I use the term ‘foundation model’ in this blog post really refers to tuned models…Apr 25Apr 25
Mike KuniavskyDistributed Cognition is the next AI UX metaphorPart 1: AI agents and oracles are mediocre interaction metaphorsApr 18Apr 18
Mike KuniavskyFrom blanketing to predictingI did a lunch seminar presentation for the ATLAS Institute at CU Boulder yesterday (thank you, Ellen!) on generative AI. I wrote down some…Mar 15, 2023Mar 15, 2023
Mike KuniavskyinLabs NotebookMass HallucinationHow generative AI systems could/will reconfigure the made worldDec 18, 20221Dec 18, 20221
Mike KuniavskyinLabs NotebookTransformers Rule Everything Around Me: Text to Geometry as Computational Design enabler for the…NB: as I wrote this blog post, OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 dropped and it produces strikingly finished, yet very human, 2D imagery from text. It’s…Apr 14, 2022Apr 14, 2022
Mike KuniavskyThe time is now for Computational Product DesignWhether you call it a paradigm shift, as Thomas Kuhn did, disruptive innovation, as per Clayton Christensen, or venture capitalists’ hockey…Apr 5, 2022Apr 5, 2022
Mike KuniavskyComputational Design in the shadow of ModernismDesign — whether you call it styling, architecture, or engineering, and whether the end product is a shoe, an app, or a lawnmower blade —…Feb 14, 20222Feb 14, 20222
