Humorphism - why AI attention is not all you need
The hyper-growth of all things AI traces back to a 2017 paper that introduced the transformer architecture under the title “Attention Is All You Need.”
ChatGPT and the wave that followed took the title at its word, assuming that scaling attention was a path to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). But what transformers and the LLMs ( Large Language Models) built on them do not do well is notice the periphery – the context. They cannot tell if the person on the other end is distressed, distracted, or in a hurry to get off the phone.
Hector Ouilhet, VP of Design for AWS Applied AI Solutions, coined the word humorphism to characterize a different approach to designing AI experiences, a response to the filing cabinets and trash cans inherent in traditional skeuomorphic design. He unpacks what is missing from current AI experiences:
What we’re missing is this other aspect of being...
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