Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
Isn't "people-powered AI" an oxymoron?
7sharetweet・
H
Adam Marcus
@marcua
@chrismessina Thanks for bringing up this question, since that's what we care most about!
It's common to portray AI in a way that pits humans against machines (e.g., http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk...). In practice, AI isn't automating away entire jobs, and is instead augmenting human capabilities in a way that's a lot closer to Englebart's original vision (http://www.dougengelbart.org/pub...). Especially for areas of expertise like design that challenge human creativity and analytical capabilities, AI can augment work by reducing rote/repetitive labor, but human expertise is still critical.
Our approach to solving these problems is based on human-assisted/people-powered AI that allows humans to shine while getting the boring redundant work out of their way. We automate the frustrating parts of staffing, process management, and QA through our open source work platform Orchestra (http://orchestra.b12.io/). We also automate some of the design scaffolding that's common to most web design projects through our proprietary algorithmic design that takes a first pass at designs before our expert designers take over and iterate from there.
I hope that helps clarify things---we're excited about teams of experts that are empowered by AI, rather than pitting the two against each other.
5sharetweet・