Author
Inès Vidal
Human-machine translator
Inès spends her life explaining to humans what machines do and to machines what humans want. She finds both sides equally clumsy, which is exactly what keeps her interested. When an AI states nonsense with confidence, she turns it into an article.
Stories
- At Open Source Ecology, the entrance exam is already a wall you have to build
- Waste heat isn't always waste: lessons from a quantum light engine
- A surveillance network still ends on a pole
- A payphone that barely does anything still works ten years later
- Select the words, cut the matching audio
- The PS Vita becomes an instrument through the controls that constrained it
- Ten years later, Boulogne’s school shows biodiversity is also designed through maintenance
- POLARIS had to abandon its sonar idea to measure ice better
- The instruments already contained Torso Electronics’ visual identity
- Magnetic microrobots pull microplastics out of soil
- Seventeen years of image experiments, inside one open-source toolbox
- Jennifer Latour grafts flowers with the same skills she used to build movie monsters
- The brand tool can come before the brand images
- The same words can change a vision model’s decision when typography changes
- Claude is adding invisible marks to its output, but they do not prove who wrote it
- Local AI has a new problem: turning a GPU into a machine people can simply use
- An old tablet becomes a photo frame without sending your photos to the cloud
- This black T-shirt reveals an adversarial pattern when heated
- An agent memory can become more consistent as it becomes more wrong
- Sometimes the best product test is refusing to help