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Human Computer Interaction: The UX of AI

Talkat DevFestYYC 2024 · 2024-11-15..11-16· [ux-and-product-design]
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Argues that conversational prompts fail because humans have goals not questions and shows concrete alternatives: a fully hidden prompts UI that watches code and flags a race condition instead of waiting for a query; a questionnaire-driven generator that builds a multi-step chain-of-thought prompt to pick Canadian cities or date-night options; and a verification step that checks claimed business names/addresses with the Google Places API or URL 404 checks to reduce hallucinations and preserve trust.

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  1. 0:00Introduction and setup
  2. 2:13History of user interfaces
  3. 10:03Limitations of current AI interaction
  4. 19:38Science fiction and AI expectations
  5. 21:04Building better AI tools today
  6. 26:33Call to action and conclusion
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