OpenAI + Jony Ive = Post-Smartphone Era?
Sept. 24, 2024. Perplexity.ai reports that OpenAI and former Apple hardware designer Jony Ivie are working together to create hardware that will be simpler and more transparent than today’s smartphones. This is not new territory. Rabbit R1 and Humane AI pin have recently tried to erase the physical smartphone in favor of gestures and voice commands. The effort smacks of the phones featured in AppleTV+’s Sunny (read the Verge’s “Apple’s Sunny imagines a cozy future where screens fade into the background” for more on this). Stay tuned for announcements from Jony Ive’s San Francisco design firm Love from,.
Jony Ive’s OpenAI Hardware Project
AI Burnout is Real
Sept. 19, 2024. A commentary piece by Alan R. Shark on Route Fifty proposes that AI’s everything everywhere all at once effect is burning out government workers. Work expectations are up, workers are worried about their job security, and constant change is a burden that’s becoming too much to bear.
Censorship? Guardrails? The Debate Around Regulating AI
Sept. 24, 2024. As AI tools become increasingly embedded in daily life at personal and systems levels, there’s a strong call to revise governmental procedures to keep up. Some calls are to protect democracy from AI misuse. Others are calling to reduce restrictions and regulations on AI tools. This story by Steve Lohr for The New York Times (subscription required) shares about “Artificial Intelligence and Democracy in America,” a project at Stanford University.
Rethinking ‘Checks and Balances’ for the A.I. Age
AI Killed Homework. What’s Next?
Aug. 30, 2024. Learning requires effort, and AI is great at reducing effort, which, according to Ethan Mollick, created the Homework Apocalypse (Jul. 21, 2023). Mollick returned to this topic in August 2024, reporting about how poorly AI tools and people can sense content created by AI and why students use AI to cheat. Spoiler alert: it’s because learning takes a ton of effort, and hard work is not always fun or convenient. Blame our brains’ System 1 and System 2 thinking for this inconvenient truth. Learn more about Daniel Kahneman’s work on decision-making in a brief primer from SUE Behavioural Design. The takeaway? Design experiences so AI expands learning instead of replacing it.
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