Today, our animated short film, “Dear Upstairs Neighbors,” previews at the Sundance Film Festival.
Our Approach to Artificial Intelligence
We are experimenting with using AI tools to extend our work as a small nonprofit, so that we can focus our time on reinforcing human connections, conversations, and communities that have eroded.
[Keynote 01] A Theory of Appropriateness: Social Norms for Humans and AIs
bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop
The Open-Source Multimodal AI Agent Stack: Connecting Cutting-Edge AI Models and Agent Infra
In the AI Boom, a Room of Their Own
FoundHer House, an all-female hacker house started by two students at the USC Iovine and Young Academy, aims to accelerate the growth of female-led, AI-driven tech startups.
Why Human Guidance Matters in Collaborative Vibe Coding
Writing code has been one of the most transformative ways for human societies to translate abstract ideas into tangible technologies. Modern AI is changing this process by enabling experts and non-experts alike to generate code without actually writing it, instead using natural language instructions or "vibe coding". While increasingly popular, the impact of vibe coding on productivity and collaboration, and the role of humans in this process, remains unclear. Here, we introduce a controlled experimental framework for studying collaborative vibe coding and use it to compare human-led, AI-led, and hybrid groups. Across 20 experiments involving 737 human participants, we show that people provide uniquely effective high-level instructions for vibe coding, whereas AI-provided instructions often result in performance collapse. We further demonstrate that hybrid systems perform best when humans lead by providing instructions while evaluation is delegated to AI. Although AI systems can rapidly optimize performance for specific tasks, our work highlights the importance of human guidance in shaping future hybrid societies.
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
The AI Aesthetic
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
The Phoenix Architecture
Generative AI coding demands what we've always known: modularity, clear boundaries, disposable components. Principles that scaled human teams are now table stakes. Here, we make the implicit explicit
Cognitive Farmsteading
The message of the AI medium is intellectual rural domesticity
Pinterest is Dead. I Built an Alternative