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Introducing the Conversational Toolkit

by Adam Connors

Oct 22

Banner that says “The AI-Augmented Life” in light green against a rounded, rectangular, dark green bubble and “#05” below it also in light green on a dark green, scalloped circle. The banner has a light yellow background and three circles, one in light green, green, and dark green, on each side.

Oct 22

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“Teach my son History” — How I used AI to help my son remember stuff

A week before his final exams and this is what my son’s bedroom floor looks like:

Aug 23

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Aug 23

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Building the plane while flying it: an LLM case study

Quinn Madison, Alexa Koenings, Iris Chu, Pratheek I, from Google Dev AI UX Contributor: Laurie Pham, Google DevAI UX

Aug 16

4 cards arranged in clockwise order that indicate the UI patterns described in the article. The 1st card shows a UI in which AI generated code has 2 sources: controls to provide feedback, and a message to the user to use code with caution. The 2nd card asks users why they chose a rating, with an response section. The 3rd card recommends prompts for users to get started with coding tasks, and he 4th card lists 3 questions that users might ask an LLM, accompanied by feedback and documnentation.

Aug 16

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Talking to My AI (Part #2) — Is it useful yet?

By Adam Connors

Aug 8

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Aug 8

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Talking to My AI (Part #1) — Exploring the surprisingly useful illusion of human-like conversation

The AI-Augmented life project is exploring ways that AI might change our everyday lives in the coming years. One theme that stands out in…

Jul 26

Banner that says “The AI-Augmented Life” in light green against a rounded, rectangular, dark green bubble and “#02” below it also in light green on a dark green, scalloped circle. The banner has a light yellow background and three circles, one in light green, green, and dark green, on each side.

Jul 26

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Adventures with AI-powered notetaking

Introducing AutoNotes: hierarchical tags, chat with your notes, and highlights to help uncover hidden gems in your personal notes

Jul 16

A GIF quickly showing off AutoNotes features. This begins on the “Chat” page. The user types in a query and clicks on the link to referenced note included in Gemini’s response. Next, the user clicks on the “Home” page and browses (via scrolling and uncollapsing containers) the hierarchical tags and summaries. Finally, the user clicks on “Highlights” for a fun preview of quotes, favorite people, etc. across the entire set of notes.

Jul 16

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Building the AI-Augmented Life

by Adam Connors

Jul 10

Banner that says “The AI-Augmented Life” in light green against a rounded, rectangular, dark green bubble and “#01” below it also in light green on a dark green, scalloped circle. The banner has a light yellow background and three circles, one in light green, green, and dark green, on each side.

Jul 10

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3 Google I/O take-aways: Creating responsible generative AI products

by Mahima Pushkarna, Design Lead, People + AI Guidebook and PAIR, and Sally Limb, Senior UX Designer, Responsible AI UX

May 20

A diagram of five principles with a green and black image above each principle. Principle 1: An image of a game console, “Design for user autonomy”. Principle 2: An outline of 2 people, “Align AI with real-world behaviors”. Principle 3: A shield with a check mark, “Treat safety as an evolving endeavor”. Principle 4: Messaging icons, “Adapt AI with user feedback”. Principle 5: A heart shape, “Create helpful AI that enhances work and play”

May 20

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LLM Comparator: A tool for human-driven LLM evaluation

By Minsuk Kahng, Ryan Mullins, Ludovic Peran

May 14

LLM Comparator’s interface features a table on the left displaying input prompts, model outputs, score distributions, and rationales. A column on the right showcases visualizations like score distributions, metrics, clusters, and custom functions. Users can interact with both the table and visualizations to drill down into specific data points and filter results.

May 14

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Generative AI is reshaping our mental models of how products work. Product teams must adjust.

By Reena Jana, Mahima Pushkarna, and Soojin Jeong

Apr 26

A smiling human form holding a green sphere in one hand stands next to drawer that has been opened from a wall of drawers. The greens sphere indicates a mental model. A burst of light-color and abstract shapes indicate that the sphere has been taken from the drawer. Two other random drawers are partially open, with green spheres peeking out.

Apr 26

People + AI Research @ Google

People + AI Research @ Google

People + AI Research (PAIR) is a multidisciplinary team at Google that explores the human side of AI.

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