Hi, y’all! Happy IoT Day! This is a long tradition initiated by Rob van Kranenburg years ago. And still some events all around the world. Furthermore another week with AI and robotics dominating the tech news. Welcome to the new subscribers! This week’s newsletter includes news on AI trust, things, and care for AI. Among others. And will Apple indeed introduce a roaming homebot? The paper for this week is related to the thoughts that were triggered by being human in an AI world.
Triggered Thoughts
In a talk by Karen X Cheng from a couple of months ago, she discussed her fight with herself being dependent on the algorithm. In social media mainly. She has 5 antidotes formulated. All very much makes sense, but let me focus on nr 4: Human + AI. One statement she makes at the end is that we are now (and with this presentation) thinking about strategies to protect ourselves from the algo-encapsulation. But is it our responsibility, she wonders? Are we now responsible for making our seatbelts in the car? It is an illustrative metaphor as it is relatable to people to think about the relationship between humans and AI through the lens of social media algorithms. It is a good example of how it potentially shapes our real-world behavior. And it can inspire us to overcome obstacles.
Combining with this video of Alice Cappelle on the role of technology in Dune, where she addresses how we work together with technology, using Weil and others to make the case in the way of a co-performance with technology rather than choosing the dichotomy of being ruled by tech or ruling tech. Tech and tools are cultures; how would they see archaeologists of the future look at our tools? The video is nice to watch if you are into tech philosophy/ers and concepts like Solarpunk and radical pragmatism.
In the same YouTube streak, I watched John Maeda’s latest design report. He references, amongst others, a paper on Humanlike Artificial intelligence (see below). He wonders what our approach to AI and our relationship with AI should be. Should we design against AI? Do we want to prevent humanizing AI? He concludes by focusing on creating “palpable customer-centric criticality value.” Stay resilient to delusion and illusion, circling back in a way to Cheng…
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