I'm a designer and programmer, working on the future of the web, machine learning, and interfaces. I want to give humans more agency over their computers.
Now
As of August 2024, I am CEO of Unternet a small software company with big ambitions to reimagine the user agent. We're building a new, flexible and intelligent client for the web that will eventually replace the browser. And of course — it's open-source, based on web standards, and gives users control over their data.
Prior to Unternet, I was on the design team at Adept, which brought me from my hometown of Sydney to San Francisco where I now live.
I've also worked at Mozilla's Innovation Studio, where I was designing and building new machine learning-based products. There, I created the LangView library to as a public demonstration of generative interfaces. And, I was at at Google Creative Lab, where I worked with early large neural networks to build novel user interfaces for creative work.
Latest blog posts
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Thought partnership with language models
This is a new sort of interaction with computers, one that's far more personal and flexible than anything in the history of human-computer interaction. It's something I've been calling thought partnership.
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How web publishing is broken
The original promise of the web was a fully-distributed amalgamation of individuals with web servers.
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Bury the hierarchy: On folders, broken links, and Bill Gates' biggest mistake
Somewhere deep in MIT, around 1965, a group of researchers were putting the finishing touches on their new computer operating system, Multics.
Publications & talks
- October, 2024. "Introducing Web Applets" @ Causal Islands Berlin. Talking about Unternet's Web Applets, a new protocol for AI-native applications on the web.
- November, 2023. "The Mediated Web" @ Web Directions in Sydney, Australia. On how language models will mediate our interactions with the web.
- April, 2023. "Building humane interfaces with language models" @ Causal Islands Toronto. Talking about the future paradigm of interaction design.
- May, 2022. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, presenting my paper on "Perception of control in generative AI music user interfaces"
- April, 2022. WIPO conversation on intellectual property and frontier technologies(wipo.int @ 1:32:31), where I discuss opportunities and threats around AI in the music industry.
- December, 2021. "AI & IP: Who owns music made by a machine?" (goethe.de) for the Goethe Institut.
- November, 2021. Live interview with Holly Herndon (facebook.com) for Melbourne Music Week.