Figures - 79% of Gen Zs report being lonely. Enter: AI chatbots. // We spend 8.2 hours a day online. The metaverse is dead, long live the metaverse. // 76% of Millennials and Gen Zs want to be their own boss—and America will become a freelance-majority workforce in 2027.
People: hottest temperatures ahead. AI & childhood - and UBI. Prison hulks. MIT course “AI for better communication”. COBOL devs crisis. Nomad workers/tourists. Disaster response people. Aéroese [PDF examples].
Tech: France and planned obsolescence. AI start-up mimicking dead, loved ones (black mirror!). Details of the CarynAI chatbot. Neuroscience changes. Orb and cryptocurrencies - eyeballs. Rethinking brakes on EV. Paying for cochlear implant obsolescence. Germany tangled wires issues.
AI: BT cutting 55K jobs, 20% of them due to AI. Generative AI and white collars. No “AI”, just a tool? Token-efficiency unfairness across languages: a case for new transformers? Agents are the future. Claude now sites between GPT3.5 and GPT4.
DIY: Rewriting CVs, and Knowledge management, with LLMs. Fun with OPL (used by ChatBase). Might try PrivateGPT. Doughnut economy zine.
Bio: Snail jaws. Fungus turning flies into zombies. Using AI for new superbug antibiotics.
