Weeknotes 350 - Can AI truly perform critical thinking as it does not have a clue? How to bring in humbleness through our own interactions? This and more from last week's news on human-AI-thing collabs.
Weeknotes 349 - There is often more said in the in-between than in the real; is that void hidden from data capturing? What will be the role of AI here? That thoughts were triggered from the news of last week. Read more captures.
Weeknotes 348 - Do we want to remove all frictions in a seamless AI presence, or do we need this for being human? Thoughts and captures from the news in human-AI-things.
Weeknotes 347 - Preventing the Moloch trap of collective intelligence through designing the right intentions. And more on last week’s human-AI-thing news and beyond.
Weeknotes 346 - Triggered a thought connecting the thinking about rewilding the internet and knowledge hyper-inflation. And more news.
Weeknotes 345 - Software 3.0 and slime molds, what do they have in common? This and other captured news of last week, events, etc.
Weeknotes 344 - This week’s thought(s) is triggered by talks at PublicSpaces and other news on the development of edge-ai, opening up new chapters in surveillance. And other news as well.
Weeknotes 343 - There is a strange habit of seeing AGI linked to a goal to overtake humans; better respect differences. And the news captures from last week.
What is the impact of creating a contained environment of physical AI for future realities? Read more in the triggered thoughts. And much more.
Weeknotes 341 - New value mechanics for the agentic web What is the consequence of an agentic web for the mechanics of values? And a lot of other news after a week of announcements by Big AI Tech.
Weeknotes 340 - Digital twins that become infused by AI might impact everyday life substantially. This and more notions from the news of last week in human AI relationships.
Weeknotes 339 - Compressing of time as trigger for different co-performances Thoughts on compressing time and our impact. Next to more news.
Next to all the news in human-AI and beyond, some thoughts triggered thru vibe coding small AI and reflecting on survival strategies of a big tech player.
This week’s notes offer thoughts about AAR and intelligence, collaborative power, synthetic satellites, and more based on the latest news.
Weeknotes 336 - Design for collectivity was a hot topic at multiple conferences and online discourses, so I added some thoughts. Inspired by notions of last week’s news.
A shorter newsletter this week, looking back at the ThingsCon Salon, and thinking about the role of human agency in the Agentic to Agentic realities.
Weeknotes 334 - Tariffs and the consequences for agentic AI, and more news from last week. And thinking about embracing teamwork with AI as a new form of collectives.
Weeknotes 333 - What does the Ghibli meme mean for understanding the power of multimodal reasoning AI? And how I was triggered by discussing responsible AI while acknowledging ‘it’ as a separate entity.
Weeknotes 332—Will we have AI as a mental exoskeleton? If so, will it crumple our thinking capabilities, or can we ensure a personal mental coach? Triggered by news from last week next to multiple other topics captured.
Weeknotes 331 - New LCMs, semantic AI vaporware, and triggering human resourcefulness. What is happening in our relation with AI? This and a look back at the news of last week.
Weeknotes 330: Building on last week's claim for embodied intelligence in robotics, this week's topic is immersive living intelligence, triggered by the new Amy Webb trend report. And many more.
Social intelligence of AI seems to be a defining factor in the new models. Is embodied intelligence part of this, and is this what humanoids are actually about?
This week, there are two new models to reflect: Grok-3 and Claude 3.7. And much more from the news. And thinking about prediction markets for value relation flows.
Consider the emerging expressions of human-AI interactions and what that means for our interpretation of AGI. And lots of other notions as every week.
Weeknotes 326 - Can we trust AI to be our AGI assistent as it can fail on unknown knowns? Reflections, and reads from last week.
The latest notions from the developments in human-AI partnerships (yes also DeepSeek), and thoughts triggered by lessons from the global south and blockchain reflections.
Reflecting on the volatile market of GenAI and other aspects of DeepSeek-impact, and thinking about the impact on human value. With lots of links as always.
While a new reality is really kicking in, the newsletter explores the latest news on immersive human-ai co-performances and related topics.
About how AI in a box will prepare your house to become a synthetic platform. And other news.
A new year, a new format for the newsletter, with the same ingredients. Notions from the news and triggered thought on the balancing act of 2025.
This week’s triggered thought is about new skills we will need to co-work with our AI team members. And more about our agentic future now.
A holiday edition with a raw list of news captures, in the week that o3 is introduced as reasoning performing AI impersonator.
Last week’s ThingsCon brought lots of inspiration, among others in the talks by Matt, Iohanna, and Simone. Some first thoughts. And the tech giants battling for the hottest news.
What will AI do for automated systems in the real world? Are we already expecting algo being AI? Agentic AI and more.
What is the difference between smart and intelligent objects? Is this the same as ten years ago? Some thoughts, and notions from the news from last week.
Thinking about the dangers of new craptocracy and possible pathways using empowering capabilities of more than human agents. And more from the news.
This week’s thoughts are triggered by the graduation work of Lisa. And next to that some highlights from the tech societies and futures news.
Thoughts on AI search as a signal of the next paradigm shift. And other captures of the news, paper of the week, and events to visit.
Agentic AI and new ways of designing the right balance of magic and agency. And other news on immersive human-AI partnerships in tech societies.
A bit squeezed in a busy week at DDW and beyond. So using the new agents to explore them. And more news on testing the human-ai partnerships.
Doing a workshop made me sharpen some thoughts and learn more about rockets and robotaxis and reflective stories.
What will happen when these AIs become more and more capable of playing us? And other notions from last week's news in this newsletter.
What can we discover about ourselves using the current fuzzy intelligence tools? And an overview of last week's news on human-AI partnerships.
This week a short holiday version with event announcements and a generated podcast on predictive relations via AI. Inception.
A short quick holiday edition of the weekly newsletter. With some thoughts on the latest in boosted humanity.
A short weeknotes edition, with some thoughts on the play of Apple Intelligence.
Will we take the synthetic conversation for real when we have a real conversation? And notions from last week’s news, looking forward to events.
Why are all these humanoids popping up? Some thoughts. And the latest in news on tech societies and human-AI partnerships.
The weekly notes on human-AI partnerships, immersive connectiveness, tech societies and thing to do and experience. And thinking about the relationsship of AGI and cozytech.
Next to looking back on human-AI news of last week, tech societies and immersive realities, this week triggered thoughts on impact of robotics and AI in fashion
Reflecting on talks on “corporate design thinking” applying AI tools, and thinking about sensors impersonating cameras to capture new realities. With notions from news, and paper for the week.
Newsletter with thoughts on a societal redesign of AI. The latest news and opinions on all human-AI, immersive, robotics and tech societies.
Some impressions from the Science and Technology conference on AI and agency, and the news of last week on human-AI partnerships, robotic performances and tech societies.
What happens when people really attach to their AI buddy? My first experiences with an orange rabbit and other notions are from last week's news.
Will LLM social characteristics be more important than knowledge level? This and other notions from the news on Human-AI partnerships and tech societies.
Thinking again about new concepts of agency in a genAI reality. And notions from last week’s news.
Is the acceptance of autotune signaling our future relation to reality? Thoughts and other notions from last weeks news on human-AI co-performances.
Will this wave of mundane intelligence change our app model? And other news, events to visit.
Are we entering a new phase in AI with Apple Intelligence, capitalizing on embodied intelligence? And other news on human-AI partnering and robotic performances ao.
Showing sources is not enough; design encounters. Some thoughts. And the latest notions from the news, a paper on AI and democracy, and more.
This week, another round of AI news. I am thinking about applying agonistic pluralism in generative things and urban robots. And others -more-than-human- news and events to visit.
This week, thoughts on ubiquitous AI that is more than just always there. Developments in voices of AI, and more news and interesting events.
This week, some thoughts from the Heart and the Chip, and lots of news on new AI model facelifts.
Are LLMs another twinning layer of our digital life? And the clash of politics vs democratizing as resilient tech strategies. And more notions from the news on human-AI, robotic performances etc.
Reflecting on AI's impact real life, generative UIs, and lots more notions from the news on human-AI nearby and further futures
The latest notions from the news, thinking about the first results from student teams working on neighborhood navigator robots, and more.
Exploring thoughts on interaction paradigms of LLM devices, and catching up with the latest news on human-AI and robotic performances and immersive connectedness.
AI scrutiny and realfakism. New AI-assistants, and rumors on Apple exploring roaming homebots. And much more.
This week's newsletter includes thoughts on the ongoing build-up to really helpful writing tools. In the news roundup, we have new AI battles, personal agents, LLM houses. And robots. A paper on the City as a Licence. And there are also some events to attend or track.
Some thoughts on a dichotomy of human-machine relations. In the roundup of the news, the new AI battles, personal agents, and sweet city scanning. And some events to attend or track.
Apple is hinting at its AI plans standing out, and James Bridle created a new project. Are human-AI interactions like performance art? And more notions from the news and event calendar.
How will robotics develop as mild exoskeletons and become a fashion item, creating new balance and human-robotic governance? And the latest notions of the news.
In this week’s newsletter a look back and some triggered thoughts from an event on Charging the Commons, connecting it to the notions from the news autonomous, robotic, intelligent things and beyond.
More personalised large intelligence models that can unlock (or unhide) latent knowledge. And other news on 'beyond human intelligence' and embodiment (aka #AI #robotics)
This week, the latest updates on AI tools and, specifically, the new approaches to unlocking generative AI. And much more, from robotics to proxy citizenship.
Updates from the latest news on human tech and other intelligences, new events to track and thinking about devices that will change how we deal with our daily life
Thinking about the second-order impact of the Vision Pro and other news.
Weekly overview of news about human-AI-tech encounters in the (near) future + an overview of interesting events.
An overview of notions from the news on AI things, autonomous things, connected things and other things. Thinking about the interverse with things as digital twins and new citizenships.
This week, CES is a trigger for thoughts on AI and the physical world. And more on mundane robotics, embedded intelligence, and wandering humans.
In this weeknotes, more thoughts and news on this phenomenon and more on human-tech relations with or without humans in the leading loop
Happy (target is) NEW year! Looking into the latest on human-tech relations. And this week, special attention for some 2024 predictions. Let’s create the best version of 2024 together!
Latest on human-machine-intelligence-autonomous and beyond. First reflections on new things emerging from the TH/NGS 2023 conference.
This week, a shorter edition due to parallel culminating deadlines :-) But with the usual mix of notions from the news on human-tech-relations.
Continued reflections on human-ai-thing interactions, latest news and events to notice and visit. And updates.
The weekly update looks back on the latest developments in AI, robotics, intelligent environments, relations of humans and technology, and more (than human).
The whole OpenAI saga is still developing, so these reflections might be outdated… There is more news that contributes to longevity insights, though.
Follow-up of GPT store, surface Humane AI, and more notions from last week’s news in human-tech relations, with events and paper for the week.
Notions from the news on AI (a lot), robotics, phygital and other concepts. And connecting the latest from GPTs and Ruliad and the impact on our frictionless futures.
Impressions from Dutch Design Week and the latest notions from the news, events to visit and a paper on unlearning LLMs.
Find the latest news about human tech intelligence partnerships, robotics, design, and more.
Latest updates on tech and humans trying to live together in harmony, and many events on AI and beyond on the calendar.
Notions from the news on robotics, AI and connected worlds. With interesting events.
Hi y’all! As mentioned last week, this is a special holiday edition again. Next week I expect to be back with a short but fresh edition. I share some events that might be interesting and a paper from the longlist. Events to check * 26, 27 September https://www.iottechexpo.
Hi, y’all! This feels a bit weird. As I am on a holiday break till the end of September, this edition and the one next week are not the usual newsletter, looking back at last week's news. I was thinking, though that it would be nice to
Another week with more AI enhancements, robots, new things and more.
This week's round-up of news on human-tech-robot collaborations, including events to visit.
The weekly update on human-tech interrelations and impacts, beyond AI, LLMs, tangible things and more.
Latest notions from the news beyond IoT, human-machine interactions, and experiencing misguiding AI
Notions from the news and thoughts on AI, mundane robotics, and new form factors for generative creativity.
A week of hyping new super materials, more generative tooling, organoid intelligence and political objects.
Angles on X, ubi crypto identity, latest LLM and gen AI tools, living a risk-avoiding society, creative coding via prompts, and more.
Exploring the AI Barbenheimer moment, new personal software paradigms, xenobots and much more, but not too much on x.
On bricked hPSS, AI principles washing, and more.
Looking back on a symposium, critical thinking for AI, robotics and much more.
Hi all, Happy July. The holiday season is about to kick in here, I think, for all who are tight to the school cycle. A short look back at last week, as I did not attend events to report on. I was at the kick-off of the AI Labs for
hi, y’all! Are you looking forward to a cage fight between Zuck and Musk? What is that all about? I am not even interested enough to dive into the backstory, let’s go on quickly to more interesting things… Last week I was able to join Mozfest House on
Weeknotes 243; metahumans in a mundane future. Looking back at TNW2023, some Vision and more AI. Event calendar and a paper on inferring emotions.
Hi, y’all, Here in the Netherlands, we experience another cycle of extreme weather after a wet spring is summer early and hot. It might make you wonder if these future goggles will have a cooling function too… Not meant to make lame jokes, as discussed last week, the impressions
Hi all! Happy realities! Apple all around. They let us rethink reality… Of course, I had to watch the keynote last evening. I expect a lot of analyses in the coming week, it is interesting to explore the first responses on the One More Thing of the presentation: the anticipated
Hi, y’all! I skipped a week as I announced two weeks ago, as I was on a short city trip to the French harbour city of Le Havre. The urban development of the city has an interesting story as it was rebuilt after World War II when the centre
Hi you’ll! Let's do a short update, a week of working on AI roadmaps and mocking up the future functionality. Next to thinking about possibilities, it is also about making choices in what role the AI will play in the overall assisting or ‘consulting’ (I was triggered
Hi all! First, let me apologise for sending this newsletter one day later than usual. We decided to enter a grant proposal quite late, and the deadline was yesterday, so I needed to eat in the hours I normally spend completing the newsletter (Monday evening and -nite). Nevertheless, here we
Hi all! As with every week, first, a quick look back at the week. Here in the Netherlands, Kings Day was there, and I celebrated it for the first time in 25 years or so in Rotterdam (or better said, not in Amsterdam). That had a special reason. Partly as
Hi y’all! I hope you have a good week. We have the yearly nationwide street party happening here - King’s Day - and this year, I might be around the place where the King is visiting as it is in Rotterdam. His route starts at the location of
Hi all! A shorter week after Easter, and next to that I combined a visit to STRP on Friday as I was in Eindhoven for the ThingsCon Salon we organised. For the third time, we teamed up with the Eindhoven community; it has been a while since the last in-person
Hi all! I hope you had a nice Easter break. I took the chance to read a bit more from last week's news articles and watch some videos. One of them was **The A.I. Dilemma** Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin. Discussing the impact of Generative AI compared
Hi all! First of all, welcome to the new subscribers. Sometimes I forget to say this, but it's great to have you. In an earlier edition, I took some time to explain what to expect from these newsletters. In short, there are four recurring elements every week: * Updates
Weeknotes 232; the AGI gap. "it is more likely that human and machine intelligence will widen the gap than become similar." Found news, events and paper of the week.
GPT-4 is here. And much more AI-related news and events in this weeknotes.
Hi! As expected, AI is all over SXSW this year. I am not following everything; that would be more work than being there. But I regularly look at a group of Dutch participants keeping a group blog with their experiences. And the regular social media posts, of course. On other
Hi all, Last week’s newsletter had a couple of wrong links; I was pointed to me (thanks, Harm). Luckily it turned out that only some of the links were in the introduction and update, so I chose not to send an updated newsletter. Of course, I corrected it in
reckonsGPT and the truth in inconvenience
Weeknotes with the interesting news from last week, and reporting sensing ethics...
Hi all. Wars and natural disasters, rough times… Hard to shift to that totally different dispute, another week full of developments in the A.I. Arms Race… Microsoft declaring war… Google lost 100 billion in value due to one presentation; Last week I mentioned the announcement of Bard, but the
Hi all! Thanks for landing here. Another week went by fast. And as all editions of the last couple of months, the biggest things are about generative AI developments. This week there might be another key moment as Google is believed to introduce a response in a special announcement event
Hi! Today I do a short update and keep it to the captured news of the week. Last week it was mostly crunch time at Structural. I attended a meetup of IxDA London on AI for creative work, discussing the potential for creativity and having a new type of user
Hi everyone. Last week's top-of-mind news was a bit hard to think of... Scrolling back the layoffs in Silicon Valley remain on top of the news; Alphabet, Spotify, and no exceptions it seems, apart from Apple. The latter is doing some silent product updates and switching on some
Hi all! Another week full of ChatGPT and comparable AI explorations. Below are some new examples. I will keep the update short this week. Working on the startup and keeping track of the news. This week there are some events planned that I might attend so will report on this
Hi all! As mentioned last week I am moving the newsletter to a new tool as the former one (Revue) is discontinued from next week, and all data will be lost. I am now extra very happy to have been very consistent in copying the content of my newsletter to
Happy new year! Hi all! First of all, a happy 2023 to you! I just returned from a delayed fireworks event in Amsterdam that was moved to the 2nd of January at 20:23 as last Saturday, the weather conditions prohibited fireworks… The advantage was that I was able to
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