UX Roundup: Controlling Superintelligence | Dark Design 2 | Normal Folks and AI | UX Hero: Jack Carroll | Shower Temperature | How Designers Use AI | Agentic AI Grows | Are You In AI?
Can humans remain in control with superintelligent AI (ASI)? | Dark design music video redone | What are normal people saying about AI? | My hero: Dr. John M. Carroll of IBM Research | Finally, a hotel room shower makes it easy to adjust temperature | How designers use AI vs. what they say about AI | Explosive growth in use of agentic AI among non-developers | Check whether major AI models know you
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 2923 min read
From AGI to ASI: DeepMind’s Roadmap as a Comic Book
DeepMind outlined 4 paths to superintelligence: scaling, paradigm shifts, recursive self-improvement, and multi agent collectives. I explained this dense 57-page report in a 31-page comic book, including a section on the UX implications.
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 188 min read
UX Roundup: Scope Creep | Demis Hassabis on AI | Interpreting Probability Terms | Why People Use AI & Internet | Google AI
Video about scope creep | Demis Hassabis on the present and future of AI | Humans and AI have different interpretations of words to denote probabilities | Very different reasons why people use AI versus the Internet | Google’s disappointing AI announcements
Jakob Nielsen
May 2515 min read
The Decade of AI Super-Acceleration
AI's rapid advancement is caused by 3 factors: raw compute, algorithmic efficiency, and "unhobbling." Result: 10,000x AI boost every 4 year
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 10, 20248 min read