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…20 min read·Jun 3, 2024--1--1
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…7 min read·May 6, 2024----
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…11 min read·Apr 25, 2024----
Mike KuniavskyDistributed Cognition is the next AI UX metaphorPart 1: AI agents and oracles are mediocre interaction metaphors8 min read·Apr 18, 2024----
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…6 min read·Mar 15, 2023----
Mike KuniavskyinLabs NotebookMass HallucinationHow generative AI systems could/will reconfigure the made world15 min read·Dec 18, 2022--1--1
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…8 min read·Apr 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…9 min read·Apr 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 —…6 min read·Feb 14, 2022--2--2
