From Victorian Trains to Chatbots: Exploring AI Interface Design

Professors Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas in front of blue technology stems

Date and Time

April 18, 2024
05:00PM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

Zoom

How can people work with AI effectively, safely, and enjoyably? Combining ideas from Victorian railways with a dive into the mechanics of deep neural networks, Viégas and Wattenberg propose a new kind of AI instrumentation. They argue that if toasters and coffeemakers have displays that tell you their internal state, we should expect nothing less from modern machine learning systems. If we had an AI dashboard, what should be on it?