Tag: ai
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Permission To Start Again
I didn’t quite understand what it meant back then. That a piece could define its own vessel, as I did it the other way around.
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A Tale of Two Little Guys: Sony AIBO + FURBY
What if a ‘little guy’ escapes the screen? In the late 90s, two did: Sony’s AIBO and the Furby.
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Riding A Wave
I’ve been in the Pin Hole this weekend. A thought arrived and I just needed to get it out.
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Cloudflare’s NET Dollar: AI Agents, Crypto Rails, and Web Payments
This isn’t the first time I’ve talked about AI agents, agents scurrying around paying for things with blockchains.
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4o-4 Not Found
The sudden removal of GPT-4o exposed how deeply people have made friends with AI. How should we design good goodbyes?
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Clippy: A Little History of Little Guys
The history of ‘Little Guys’ in AI UX. There are very few bits of software that have achieved such lasting cultural immortality as Clippy.
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40th Birthday!
Some of my favourite writers have published absolute bangers about turning 40 but I realise that I don’t have much to say
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Petz: A Little History of Little Guys
The history of ‘Little Guys’ in AI UX. Petz (1995), desktop buddies, and the design choices that shaped today’s agent interfaces.
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The Weather Turned
Pre-production work (making notes lol) has started on what I might do once 301 comes to the end of it’s run at the end of this month.
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Playability
One of things happening in culture that I think we can all feel intuitively is that increasingly media mediums are playable.
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GPT Job Losses: Slowly, Then Suddenly | 2513
AI boosters on LinkedIn will have you belive AI will be taking everyone’s job tomorrow, but the anti-AI voices however still say never.
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Wait, what?
Some estimates put the total number of words of fan fiction written a year at 100 billion words.
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Overdosed on AI Music | 2512
This week, I stood at the Slop Machine, experiencing not the future, but the extreme present. All day, every day, I’ve been listening to AI generated music.
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Eating From the Trough
For the next week, at least, I’ve decided to eat as much slop from the trough as possible. To find out what it’s like.
