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“AI does not appear to be advancing so much that it will create mass joblessness,” even though this year’s hysteria about ChatGPT is included. Like the industrial robots that are discussed in a previous chapter, “current technology thus far can perform only a small set of tasks, and its impact on employment is limited. Nevertheless, it is heading in a direction that is biased against workers and is destroying some jobs. Its most major likely impact is to further lower wages for many people, not create a completely workless future. The problem is that although AI fails in most of what it promises, it still manages to reduce the demand for workers.” - here

• Outside: Books are made of books. Atlas for the blind in 1837. Exercise guidance, from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency [PDF]. Positive friction in design.

• Business: Trademarked colors. Metals from seawater? Florida and illegal immigrants’ policy impacts.

• Tech: Listening to others - bio-acoustics. NVidia’s red team. Old water channels in Spain. Stacking stuff: maximum overhangs [PDF].

• AI: 4-week old french startup raise 100m€+. Tulpamancy. Human digital twins.

• DIY: Knowledge graphs vs LLMs.

Rei Kawakubo, Comme Des Garçons storefront in Chelsea, NY. Designed against all standards of shop window that attracts onlookers to come inside and make purchases, the CDG store’s entrance is a mysterious hallway. Visitors should either be in the know or curious, having to enter to figure out what’s to be found inside.