Preview: Aria and I Built a Website!

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I made a new website, and built it with the help of Aria, Wix's AI software. Despite writing about it for years, this has been my first experience working in a Human/Machine Team! So, let me tell you about it!

In my PhD I spent a lot of time deciding how I wanted to define the term "human/machine team". Despite it seeming like a pretty straight-forward concept, H/M Teaming was incredibly difficult to define, especially when writing speculatively about the future rather than relying on past and contemporary examples to frame such a term. I settled on a definition that prioritized the quality of machine teaming, rather than any specific capability. For my work, H/M teaming referred to distinct humans and machines working together with some element of agency to complete a task. Here, writing this blog post does not involve H/M teaming, because it is only me who is working on it. AI software is not editing the text, telling me about the text I am typing, or formatting the layout. Creating me new website, however, was a very different experience. ...

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