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Issue 119

Issue 119

Rusty Hall of Shame

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Oct 05, 2024
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Hello, dear readers! 👋

In this issue, among other things:

  • How publicly available AI tools can help UX researchers in their work

  • New multimodal LLaMa 3.2 in open source

  • Why do buildings get rusty right away

  • How AI found hundreds of new geoglyphs

  • A website dedicated to dark patterns in interfaces

  • …and much more!

Enjoy reading!

🗞 News and articles

Accelerating Research with AI

NNGroup told how publicly available AI tools can help UX researchers in their work. They found out at which stages of research AI is most useful, and at which it is better to avoid it.

The article contains examples and practical tips for using AI in planning, data analysis and documentation creation.

Deceptive Patterns. A website dedicated to dark patterns in interfaces. The most valuable part is the section with the classification of dark patterns and the "Hall of Shame" with real examples of large companies.

New technologies

Meta* released the multimodal LLaMa 3.2 in open source. It supports a context of 128 thousand tokens, like the previous LLama 3.1.

The new version understands images and can find objects on them based on descriptions. She can also analyze graphs and charts. For example, you can ask her in which month the sales were higher, and she will give an answer.

Several model sizes are available:

  • 11B and 90B are multimodal versions. It can work with high-quality images

  • 405B, 70B and 8B — multilingual text versions

  • 1B and 3B are lightweight multilingual text models for local launch. They allow you to create custom applications for analyzing messages, sending emails and other tasks

Models on Hugging Face.

OpenAI has launched Advanced Voice Mode, an advanced voice mode for ChatGPT, which was announced in May.

The developers have significantly improved speech and accents. Now the dialogue with AI is almost indistinguishable from a dialogue with a human.

The mode supports 50 languages. You can customize your voice and communication style. The model's memory is combined with text chats.

The update is available to a limited number of Plus and Team subscribers.

Cursor. An AI-based code editor. It allows you to write code using simple queries and perform a smart search through the code base.

He is able to predict edits and shows the result in advance.

There is a free trial version for two weeks.

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