OpenAI's Intelligent UI, Facebook's Your Algorithm, AI Relationship Quality (ARQ)
Shownotes
Fresh off their first live show, Nik and Dan look at three stories about who gets to shape what AI shows us. First up is OpenAI’s Intelligent UI, which lets GPT-6 build small interactive interfaces (charts, forms, buttons, maps) inline in ChatGPT instead of returning a wall of text. They compare it to Claude Artifacts, argue that speed is what makes it usable as a default, and ask what happens when companies like QuickBooks have to hand over a design system for their product to show up inside someone else’s chat window. Is ChatGPT becoming an operating system that generates apps on demand, across the silos our tasks currently live in?
Next, Facebook’s “Your Algorithm” lets people steer their Feed and Reels in plain language. Dan draws on his time at Twitter and the promise of Bluesky’s algorithm marketplace; Nik wonders whether more control might raise engagement rather than lower it, and how this data could feed Meta’s Muse agents. Finally, UserTesting has rebranded as Auros and is pivoting toward AI training and evaluation with verified human experts. Its new AI Relationship Quality (ARQ) benchmark measures trust, affinity, and control alongside technical performance, which leads to a frank conversation about why benchmark gains don’t always produce models that are pleasant to work with, and whether ARQ could become the NPS of AI.
LINKS
OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Stop Looking Like a Chatbot (Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/openai-wants-chatgpt-to-stop-looking-like-a-chatbot-2000823211
Facebook Is Giving Users More Control Over Their Algorithm (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/facebook-is-giving-users-more-control-over-their-algorithm/
UserTesting Rebrands as Auros, Aims to Bring Humans into AI Experience (Constellation Research)
Auros Adds ‘Human Elements’ to AI Evaluation (Daily Research News)
https://www.mrweb.com/drno/news40429.htm
Dan’s debut AI novel The Restoration (2176, Book One)