Articulated frictions for engaged presence
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.
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A collection of 126 issues
Think with us, not for us
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.
Wild internet and knowledge hyper-inflation
Weeknotes 346 - Triggered a thought connecting the thinking about rewilding the internet and knowledge hyper-inflation. And more news.
Slime Mold Computer and the Language Machine
Weeknotes 345 - Software 3.0 and slime molds, what do they have in common? This and other captured news of last week, events, etc.
Edge Surveillance and Civic Resistance
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.
Can a human entity ever become an AGI?
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.
Embodying physical AI simulations
What is the impact of creating a contained environment of physical AI for future realities? Read more in the triggered thoughts. And much more.
New value mechanics for the agentic web
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.
Immersive AI Orchestrating Agentic Prompt Systems
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.
Compressing time as a trigger for different co-performances
Weeknotes 339 - Compressing of time as trigger for different co-performances Thoughts on compressing time and our impact. Next to more news.
Survival of the fittest small AI
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.
Understanding intelligence as collaborating components
This week’s notes offer thoughts about AAR and intelligence, collaborative power, synthetic satellites, and more based on the latest news.
Reconciling AI Fragmentation and Design for Collectivity
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.
Negotiating mutual agency in agentic to agentic realities
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.
Work with AI: The Rise of Fluid Collectives
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.
Beyond Tools: AI as Autonomous Learning Entity
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.
Chilling effects of AI as an exoskeleton
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.
Bridging Resourcefulness and Semantic Understanding
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.
Immersive Intelligence: The Hybrid Future of AI and Human Experience
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.
The humanoid embodiment of social artificial intelligence
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?
Reimagining Prediction Markets for Civic Economies
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.
Breaking the blinding boxes outside in for AGI
Weeknotes 326 - Can we trust AI to be our AGI assistent as it can fail on unknown knowns? Reflections, and reads from last week.
Agents negotiating toward truth machines
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.
Weeknotes 324 - thinking-out-loud AIs as learning value
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.
Weeknotes 323 - generative communities in a zero-sum world
While a new reality is really kicking in, the newsletter explores the latest news on immersive human-ai co-performances and related topics.
Weeknotes 322 - unlocking synthetic home platform
About how AI in a box will prepare your house to become a synthetic platform. And other news.
Weeknotes 321 - the balancing act of 2025
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.
Weeknotes 320 - managing AI agents teams
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.
Weeknotes 319 - reasoning performances
A holiday edition with a raw list of news captures, in the week that o3 is introduced as reasoning performing AI impersonator.
Weeknotes 318 - Dreaming about regenerative AI agents
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.
Weeknotes 317 - designing for understandable predictive intelligence
What will AI do for automated systems in the real world? Are we already expecting algo being AI? Agentic AI and more.
Weeknotes 316 - shifting perceptions of smartness
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.
Weeknotes 315 - more-than-human agents for commons good
Thinking about the dangers of new craptocracy and possible pathways using empowering capabilities of more than human agents. And more from the news.
Weeknotes 314 - Reimagining Engagement with Bottom-Up Intelligence
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.
Weeknotes 313 - the triage of AI search
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.
Weeknotes 312 - prevent curling agentic AI parenting
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.
Weeknotes 311 - be aware of the boring AI agents
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.
Weeknotes 310 - proxy citizens and robotic things as social catalysts
Doing a workshop made me sharpen some thoughts and learn more about rockets and robotaxis and reflective stories.
Weeknotes 309 - the hidden influencer role of an adaptive AI
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.
Weeknotes 308 - revelations by relating to fuzzy intelligence
What can we discover about ourselves using the current fuzzy intelligence tools? And an overview of last week's news on human-AI partnerships.
Weeknotes 307 - Uncanny listening to your incepted thoughts
This week a short holiday version with event announcements and a generated podcast on predictive relations via AI. Inception.
Weeknotes 306 - boosted humans by in-ear intelligence
A short quick holiday edition of the weekly newsletter. With some thoughts on the latest in boosted humanity.
Weeknotes 305 - embodying and embracing applied intelligence
A short weeknotes edition, with some thoughts on the play of Apple Intelligence.
Weeknotes 304 - confusing conversations by the synthetic uh
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.
Weeknotes 303 - future mismatch of a humanoid summer
Why are all these humanoids popping up? Some thoughts. And the latest in news on tech societies and human-AI partnerships.
Weeknotes 302 - embracing cozy tech in opaque realities
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.
Weeknotes 301 - unraveling roles through robotic fashion
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
Weeknotes 300 - sensors impersonating cameras to recreate reality
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.
Weeknotes 299 - Can we make AI inclusive by default?
Newsletter with thoughts on a societal redesign of AI. The latest news and opinions on all human-AI, immersive, robotics and tech societies.
Weeknotes 298 - agenticness in prod-user symbioses
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.
Weeknotes 297 - AI emotional lock-in strategies
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.
Weeknotes 296 - Beauty contest for your AI relationship
Will LLM social characteristics be more important than knowledge level? This and other notions from the news on Human-AI partnerships and tech societies.
Weeknotes 295 - agency exchanges for communities
Thinking again about new concepts of agency in a genAI reality. And notions from last week’s news.
Weeknotes 294 - living autotune for all things
Is the acceptance of autotune signaling our future relation to reality? Thoughts and other notions from last weeks news on human-AI co-performances.
Weeknotes 293 - apps as capabilities
Will this wave of mundane intelligence change our app model? And other news, events to visit.
Weeknotes 292 - capitalizing embodied intelligence in our digital reality
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.
Weeknotes 291 - the valuable friction of context
Showing sources is not enough; design encounters. Some thoughts. And the latest notions from the news, a paper on AI and democracy, and more.
Weeknotes 290 - designing agon in fair AI systems
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.
Weeknotes 289 - the embodiment of ubiquitous AI
This week, thoughts on ubiquitous AI that is more than just always there. Developments in voices of AI, and more news and interesting events.
Weeknotes 288 - Turing test for well-behaving bots
This week, some thoughts from the Heart and the Chip, and lots of news on new AI model facelifts.
Weeknotes 287 - a new layer of digital life twinning
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.
Weeknotes 286 - blurring as a service of tangible AI
Reflecting on AI's impact real life, generative UIs, and lots more notions from the news on human-AI nearby and further futures
Weeknotes 285 - subtle robotic interventions for intense neighborhood communities
The latest notions from the news, thinking about the first results from student teams working on neighborhood navigator robots, and more.
Weeknotes 284 - LMM devices; magic or magicians?
Exploring thoughts on interaction paradigms of LLM devices, and catching up with the latest news on human-AI and robotic performances and immersive connectedness.
Weeknotes 283 - more or less human through AI?
AI scrutiny and realfakism. New AI-assistants, and rumors on Apple exploring roaming homebots. And much more.
Weeknotes 282 - ramping up for really helpful writing tools
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.
Weeknotes 281: the 3rd way in a dichotomy of human-machine relations
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.
Weeknotes 280 - multimodal AI as an Act of Performance art
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.
Weeknotes 279: robotic fashion as mild exoskeletons
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.
Weeknotes 278 - Self-organising cars for commons
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.
Weeknotes 277 - constructing system cards for your PLMs
More personalised large intelligence models that can unlock (or unhide) latent knowledge. And other news on 'beyond human intelligence' and embodiment (aka #AI #robotics)
Weeknotes 276 - Is the end of prompt engineering near?
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.
Weeknotes 275 - new buddies to deal with everyday hidden complexity
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
Weeknotes 274 - living normalising mutilated realities
Thinking about the second-order impact of the Vision Pro and other news.
Weeknotes 273 - Insane AI-in-a-box with friction-full encounters
Weekly overview of news about human-AI-tech encounters in the (near) future + an overview of interesting events.
Weeknotes 272 - the interverse with things as citizens
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.
Weeknotes 271 - Large Action Model to connect artificial living with real outputs
This week, CES is a trigger for thoughts on AI and the physical world. And more on mundane robotics, embedded intelligence, and wandering humans.
Weeknotes 270 - a year of embodied multimodality
In this weeknotes, more thoughts and news on this phenomenon and more on human-tech relations with or without humans in the leading loop
Weeknotes 269 - 2024 WIP with artificial creativity
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!
Weeknotes 268; situated AI in the interstitium of things
Latest on human-machine-intelligence-autonomous and beyond. First reflections on new things emerging from the TH/NGS 2023 conference.
Weeknotes 267 - Gemini as AI-based digital twin
This week, a shorter edition due to parallel culminating deadlines :-) But with the usual mix of notions from the news on human-tech-relations.
Weeknotes 266 - precepts of our entangled artificial life
Continued reflections on human-ai-thing interactions, latest news and events to notice and visit. And updates.
Weeknotes 265 - broken down institutions and endangered guardrails
The weekly update looks back on the latest developments in AI, robotics, intelligent environments, relations of humans and technology, and more (than human).
Weeknotes 264 - unintended consequences of AGI projections
The whole OpenAI saga is still developing, so these reflections might be outdated… There is more news that contributes to longevity insights, though.
Weeknotes 262 - shopping mundane intelligence to avoid frictions
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.
Weeknotes 261 - unlearning AI hidden magic
Impressions from Dutch Design Week and the latest notions from the news, events to visit and a paper on unlearning LLMs.
Weeknotes 260: Meta AI is reading your mind
Find the latest news about human tech intelligence partnerships, robotics, design, and more.
Weeknotes 259 - Is AI eating itself?
Latest updates on tech and humans trying to live together in harmony, and many events on AI and beyond on the calendar.
Weeknotes 258 - physical AI in autonomous worlds
Notions from the news on robotics, AI and connected worlds. With interesting events.
Weeknotes 257 - holiday edition with nano-hubs
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.
Weeknotes 256 - ramping up for synthetic realities
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
Weeknotes 255 - Acceptance through convenience. Or agency
Another week with more AI enhancements, robots, new things and more.
Weeknotes 254 - artificial consciousness assessments
This week's round-up of news on human-tech-robot collaborations, including events to visit.
Weeknotes 253 - Robot realism using proxy humans
The weekly update on human-tech interrelations and impacts, beyond AI, LLMs, tangible things and more.
Weeknotes 252 - the footprint of physical AI
Latest notions from the news beyond IoT, human-machine interactions, and experiencing misguiding AI
Weeknotes 251 - generative creativity as physical waveforms
Notions from the news and thoughts on AI, mundane robotics, and new form factors for generative creativity.
Weeknotes 250 - the long nose of counterfactual history
A week of hyping new super materials, more generative tooling, organoid intelligence and political objects.
Weeknotes 249 - orbs that define our identity in generative worlds
Angles on X, ubi crypto identity, latest LLM and gen AI tools, living a risk-avoiding society, creative coding via prompts, and more.
Weeknotes 248; the fundamental nature of AI
Exploring the AI Barbenheimer moment, new personal software paradigms, xenobots and much more, but not too much on x.
Weeknotes 247; the silent LLMs arms race
On bricked hPSS, AI principles washing, and more.
Weeknotes 246; The blame AI game in critical cities
Looking back on a symposium, critical thinking for AI, robotics and much more.
Weeknotes 245; captured in the AI bubble
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
Weeknotes 244; self-discussing robot intelligence
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
Weeknotes 243; metahumans in a mundane future. Looking back at TNW2023, some Vision and more AI. Event calendar and a paper on inferring emotions.
Weeknotes 242; visions and reflections
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
Weeknotes 241 - blinded by reality-warping goggles
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
Weeknotes 240; the bias of human agency
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
Weeknotes 238; ai writing as remix cult
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
Weeknotes 237; robot-embodied generative intelligence
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
Weeknotes 236; bio as personal computing medium
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
Weeknote 235; Somatic agents in AI space
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
Weeknotes 234; large languages as companions
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
Weeknotes 233; collabs with nihilistic machines
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
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.
Weeknotes 231; may the 4th be with you
GPT-4 is here. And much more AI-related news and events in this weeknotes.
Weeknotes 230 - oracle twins
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
Weeknotes 229; humanoid parrots and octopuses
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
Weeknotes 228; reckonsGPT and the truth in inconvenience
reckonsGPT and the truth in inconvenience
Weeknotes 227; bing with a bang
Weeknotes with the interesting news from last week, and reporting sensing ethics...
Weeknotes 226; playful thinking machines
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
Weeknotes 225; yielding the AI arms race
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
Weeknotes 224; enabling fantasies
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
Weeknotes 223; action design for AI futures
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
Weeknotes 222; GPT-3 as a personal coach
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
Weeknotes 221; Mundane AI that matter
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
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