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We recently held a Design AI training to our design staff, consisting of two half-day workshops with hands-on exercises, followed by reflection sessions. The training covered leveraging Generative AI (GenAI) in design, focusing on how AI can augment designer skills, the current and potential uses of AI across design workflow, and considerations for ethical and effective use of AI in digital services, products, and business.  Here's a list of 10 takeaways from our training sessions: 1. GenAI augments our design skills rather than replaces them.  2. At the moment, GenAI is good for research, learning, ideation, and copywriting first drafts. It's not yet useful for perfect final results, polished UI, big-picture thinking, or human interaction.  3. Prompting skills make a difference. For better results, assign a profile, personality, and context for GenAI when prompting.Use ChatGPT to get feedback on your designs and sketches.  4. Custom GPTs are good ways to build personal assistants for specific needs.  5. UI tools will probably take a major leap in a few years. Keep watching.  6. We must consider biases, ethics, and shadow patterns, and try to mitigate them. The good news? The same risks and biases are present in human-made designs.  7. We need to observe the EU-proposed principles for designing AI-enabled services.  8. Three characteristics of GenAI-powered products and services are: 1) Conversational, 2) Personalized, 3) Agentive.  9. When thinking of new products and services for customers, figure out what unfair data advantage they could have that would make their service unique.  10. Agentive AIs will challenge us to adopt a new perspective on both CX and product design, moving beyond UIs and classical user journeys towards multimodality and networks of agents. What's next? Later in the fall, we will create the Siili Design GenAI Playbook compiling insights and best practices from the training to guide our future AI-driven design projects. Stay tuned! Huge thanks to our trainer Matias Vaara for an insightful training.  #MakeItReal | #AIpowered | #Design | #AI   

With regulations tightening, how can banks ensure their clerks understand and address customer needs accurately and efficiently? "So that, I think, is one of the biggest challenges currently: compliance. Not only sort of from the perspective that how do we make it positive, but how do we find the path that we understand actually the clerk can see and understand the customer and the different interactions and relay the customer's questions to the right place, if they should happen to be in the wrong place." Eero Mikkola, OP Financial Group // Watch the full third episode of Composable Banking with Eero: YouTube: https://lnkd.in/duJ-YQkk Spotify: https://lnkd.in/d-ZsTrCG // Discover Siili's AI-powered development services: https://lnkd.in/d7KyzkuF // Subscribe to AI-Powered, our news round-up newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dvVTadwA #MakeItReal | #AIpowered | #FinTech | #AI

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Is the constant flood of AI news giving you a head spin? Subscribe to Siili Solutions' easily digestible, bi-weekly news roundup to get quickly up to speed with the most important developments. In the 6th edition of our AI-Powered newsletter: - Google DeepMind, Google's AI lab, introduces V2A, an AI tool to generate soundtracks for videos - Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet: Incremental yet significant - ElevenLabs unveils text-to-sound effects tool - Apple delays AI feature launch in Europe due to EU rules - OpenAI-founder Ilya Sutskever launches AI safety startup // If you've enjoyed the insights and stories shared in this issue, don't miss out on our upcoming editions with all the latest updates and analyses delivered straight to your inbox. // For those passionate about #data and #AI, explore exciting career opportunities with Siili Solutions by visiting https://lnkd.in/e9bHy4EY #MakeItReal | #AI | #DigitalTransformation

What kind of bank would you build with a €100 million investment? Leo Vaskelainen asked this to Eero Mikkola, OP Financial Group, and here is what he said: "Digital one. And then I would try to hire the best people from different compliance areas, but ones who also understand and know finance business." // Watch the full third episode of Composable Banking with Eero: YouTube: https://lnkd.in/duJ-YQkk Spotify: https://lnkd.in/d-ZsTrCG // Discover Siili's AI-powered development services: https://lnkd.in/d7KyzkuF // Subscribe to AI-Powered, our news round-up newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dvVTadwA #MakeItReal | #AIpowered | #FinTech | #AI

"The irony of general-purpose technologies is that, before long, they become invisible and we take them for granted. Language, agriculture, writing—each was a general-purpose technology at the center of an early wave. These three waves formed the foundation of civilization as we know it.” —Mustafa Suleyman CEO of Microsoft AI and Deepmind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman's "The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma" is a brilliant book about the societal and cultural impact of AI and other technologies. In fact, we liked it so much we've given away 200 copies to the key clients of Siili Solutions. 🙌 All books have 25 bookmarks and interesting highlights. They also come with customized, handwritten cards signed by our own Sami Urpila, and AI-designed dust covers. #MakeItReal | #AIpowered | #DigitalTransformation | #AI

Have you ever ridden in a pink Tesla? This might be the best chance you'll ever get! In a special Siili edition of her tech podcast, Agile Project Lead Reetta Siltasalmi-Kautto drives around with her guest, Jarkko Karsikas from the Puolustusvoimat - Försvarsmakten - Finnish Defence Forces, discussing public security and the development of public administration technologies. // Full interview (YouTube with English subtitles): https://lnkd.in/dFcsbYnM // Follow Reetta's YouTube channel for more Pink Tesla interviews: https://lnkd.in/dd7HGwuG #MakeItReal | #publicsecurity | #DigitalTransformation | #tesla

"AI isn't taking jobs - it's transforming them. These tools augment us as designers, rather than replace us. AI can handle repetitive analysis work or initial ideation, freeing designers’ capacity to concentrate on empathy and human understanding, which are crucial in design and strategy work." Meet Aino Makkonen, Lead Service & Business Designer at Siili Solutions, who blends business and human insight, and adores the creative use of both. In a rapid-fire interview, we picked her brains on the role of AI in the design and consulting industry, and what it means for the future of creative and strategic work. // Full interview at: https://lnkd.in/dU-cxsDm #MakeItReal | #AIpowered | #Design | #AI

In the latest episode of Siili Solutions' Composable Banking Podcast, Eero Mikkola discusses the delicate balance between data protection and service efficiency in banking. // Watch the full episode: YouTube: https://lnkd.in/duJ-YQkk Spotify: https://lnkd.in/d-ZsTrCG // Discover Siili's AI-powered development services: https://lnkd.in/d7KyzkuF // Subscribe to AI-Powered, our news round-up newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dvVTadwA #MakeItReal | #AIpowered | #FinTech | #AI

Wow, that was fast! In just 5 editions, Siili Solutions' AI-Powered newsletter has hit 4,000 subscribers (and counting!) 🥂 The AI-Powered newsletter is an easily digestible, bi-weekly roundup that quickly gets you up to speed with the most important developments in AI. In this edition: 1. Human Native AI bridges AI training data gap 2. Apple unveils "Apple Intelligence" with advanced AI features 3. Claude 3 model family now supports tool use for enhanced functionality 4. Vox Media and OpenAI announce strategic partnership 5. Microsoft introduces Copilot bot for Telegram 6. Elon Musk plans massive GPU data center for xAI 7. Microsoft scales back AI-enabled Recall feature amid security concerns - // If you've enjoyed the insights and stories shared in this issue, don't miss out on our upcoming editions with all the latest updates and analyses delivered straight to your inbox. // For those passionate about #data and #AI, explore exciting career opportunities with Siili Solutions by visiting https://lnkd.in/e9bHy4EY #MakeItReal | #AI | #DigitalTransformation