AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices (www.scientificamerican.com)
After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers
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After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers
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