Yuqian Zhou & Bertram Emil Shi generated various facial expressions from a single photo. It's a complex problem because we still need to identify a user in these states. HyperStyle can alter the age.

Pentagram developed a shape generator which allows Graphcore’s internal team to create infinite patterns that illustrate their website content, presentations and more. The generator is part-random and part-weighted and is similar to the system developed for Graphcore’s animations, which are used across digital touchpoints. How to recreate it with JavaScript.

He shows how you can use the idea of interpolation to create many states of components.

Looks similar to The Grid’s semi-automated way of enabling non-professionals to create a website. Wix teaches the algorithm by feeding it many examples of high-quality modern websites. Moreover, it tries to make style suggestions relevant to the client’s industry.

The team learned how to answer the question, “What will the booked price of a listing be on any given day in the future?” so that its hosts could set competitive prices.

Advice to designers about how to continue being useful in this new era and how to use various data sources to build and teach algorithms. The only element of classic UX design in Spotify’s Discover Weekly feature is the track list, whereas the distinctive work is done by a recommendation system that fills this design template with valuable music.

Oliver Roeder says that “computer art” isn’t any more provocative than “paint art” or “piano art.” The algorithmic software is written by humans, after all, using theories thought up by humans, using a computer built by humans, using specifications written by humans, using materials gathered by humans, in a company staffed by humans, using tools built by humans, and so on. Computer art is human art — a subset, rather than a distinction.Robert Hart looks for legal precedents.

McKinsey analyzed 800 jobs to find how easily they can be automated. Lots of interesting insights. Here's a website to check your job. It started to happen with creative jobs in 2023 (see examples: IBM, Axel Springer, Bluefocus Intelligent Communications Group Co.).

A good article series by Rob Girling from Artefact. He looks at skills that can be automated and tries to predict the future of design as s profession.

O’Reilly published a great mini-book by Patrick Hebron with machine learning basics and design examples. He also has a great vision about new design tools.