Topic: Agentive Technology

Understanding the Happy Path of Agentive Technologies

What You’ll Learn

• Understand agentive technology and how it can shape your work
• Learn the use cases involved in setting up an agent for use
• Plan for the user interactions that take place while the agent is working

Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People

Advances in narrow artificial intelligence make possible agentive systems, which do things directly for their users in custom ways users want them done. (A simple example is an automatic pet feeder.) These technologies deliver on the promise of user-centered design more than ever before, but present fresh challenges in understanding their unique promises (say, time savings), pitfalls (say, risk of losing skills), and requirements (say, describing complex goals explicitly). Join Chris Noessel as he discusses this emerging practice, detailed in his forthcoming book Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People, sharing lots of examples that bring it to life.

Agentive Technology

What You’ll Learn

• Narrow A.I. and Agentive Technologies
• Designing For Complexity