Founder @citiesofthings; Chair and curator @ThingsCon; Weekly newsletter Target_is_New Keeping this account, but find me on BlueSky or Mastodon iskandr
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Robots die pizza's bezorgen of de straat vegen: volgens deze onderzoekers duurt dat niet lang meer rijnmond.nl/nieuws/1908216/r…
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Handed my vacation videos to an AI for auto editing, and now I'm pretty sure I'll have nightmares for life 🤯
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April reflections, in coop with our AI pal citiesofthings.nl/april-refl…
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Today we are looking forward to the first ideas by four student teams of @idetudelft Interactive Technology Design course at Smart & Social Fest Rotterdam.
Neighbourhood Navigators : Imagine life with autonomous robots enhancing daily community life.
citiesofthings.nl/neighbourh…
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🚨 Breaking 🚨
Apple is in talks to acquire perplexity
This could be the start of something very exciting
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This Friday, we will kick off TH/NGS 2023 on un/intended consequences. Here are four sessions more you can expect! Find all details via thingscon.org/program-2023
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In just over a week, we will kick off TH/NGS 2023 on un/intended consequences. Here are four sessions you can expect! Find all details via thingscon.org/program-2023
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Busy preparing for next week's conference in Rotterdam! Stuffed program. thingscon.org/program-2023/
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Did you check our latest updates for TH/NGS 2023 - un/ntended consequences? The program is almost complete, and details can be found at thingscon.org/program-2023
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Follow the latest updates for our 15 Dec event! Keynotes by @mlucelupetti from @tudelftide and @basvandepoel from @modem_works, 11 confirmed sessions, and more than 15 works in the exhibition. And counting! More details will follow in the coming days! thingscon.org/program-2023/
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In academia, we often see education as a burden, but sometimes it can be experimental and fun! Last year @davemurrayrust @iohanna_ed Wouter van der Hoog and I tried out some experiential exercises for helping designers grasp AI! Read about it here:
rdcu.be/dpTZw
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A new monthly update, and planned to keep this rhythm.
July 2023 - multilateral augmented intelligence
citiesofthings.substack.com/…
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Discover how Apple's Vision Pro and Vision OS are redefining our relationship with technology in a new, immersive way in the article by Iskander Smit, the design director at Structural — buff.ly/3CUIBSi #Apple #VisionPro #ImmersiveTech #TechnologyEvolution
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In the OG 2003 #spatialcomputing paper: 'The Internet is not the only agent of spatial denial in computer science. The dream of escaping the imperfect and unpredictable real world is the engineer’s heaven. It is a denial of heaviness, friction, death, and decay'.
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I really think everyone should read the GPT-4 whitepaper released by OpenAI. At a minimum:
Pages 4-8: System capabilities
Page 48: Chart showing you why guardrails are needed
Pages 54-56: Emergent behavior
Pages 58-59: Economic impact and acceleration
cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.…
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"Introducing TukToro, the ultimate blend of physical and digital learning"
Friend of ThingsCon and two-time keynote presenter @JustynaZubrycka is one of the makers of a new well-designed educational toy. We wish them good luck with the campaign!
a2zebra.de/en
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Best paper awardee @kaeru presenting his work on #AI #contestability at #CHI2023 : great example of #design research contributing to shape the future of AI technology @kinddelft @idetudelft @TUDelft_AI
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this is from the excellent talk by Ava Scott from UCL about the need to consider perceived consciousness
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35445…
