On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Gunnar Swanson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Sooner or later Adobe software will replace graphic designers. It is
>
> inevitable, just look at all the writers unemployed because of Microsoft
>
> Word.
>
João
's clever sarcasm would actually be a true concern had he said "Quill" or
"Narrative science" instead of Microsoft Word. Word doesn't pretend to
write stories: But there are systems that not only pretend, but they are
replacing some journa;ists.
Quill and NS were both started by two friends of mine at Northwestern who
developed an Artificial Intelligence system that has replaced real live
journalists in doing routine stories about sporting events, financial
events, and so on. Really. As they say on their website:
https://www.narrativescience.com/
We are helping companies operationalize data storytelling with Quill, our
advanced natural language generation (NLG) platform. By automatically
transforming data into narratives, our artificial intelligence software
dramatically reduces the time and energy people spend analyzing,
interpreting and explaining data.
Quill starts by understanding the purpose of your communication,
identifying the metrics to meet that purpose, performing the analysis to
figure out what is most interesting and important, and pulling in the
relevant data. The result is a narrative indistinguishable from what a
human would write.
There already are AI systems that create websites, deploying
a slight amnount of aesthetic structure.
I'm about to teach a course on this -- on Automation, on human-machine
teamwork (rather than replacement), on Design as a science, and other
evils.
Reading list on request.
(Oh, what the hell, here it is:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BD4HdHz_dldKnz8HJaY1ajnInTz5pvfqtUrJ2XAT8nU/edit?usp=sharing
Here are some references provided by one of our graduate students and one
of our faculty
Websites that Design Themselves
(
From Vineet Pandey:
(one of our graduate students)
look at https://thegrid.io/
This seems relevant at many levels:
1.
Can design aesthetics choices be automated?
2.
A pretty compelling example* of end-user programming? (*depending on
what it really makes the user do)
3.
Another instance of jobs being taken away in millions?
From Scott Klemmer (on same topic)
here's a fun related CHI paper
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~donovan/design/designscape.pdf
and apropose is now available to try... http://www.apropose.com
But no, I will not join in on the debate.
Don
Don Norman
Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
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