It’s Just a Model is a biweekly conversation with Ron and Peet on the interstitium between innovation, tech, design and our human behaviour.
Your hosts are Ron Kersic, and Peet Sneekes.
In this podcast we’ll be talking about the good, the bad and the interesting, all wrapped into a informal, unscripted conversation.
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Time codes
- 00:00 – Warming up
- 02:00 – More episodes than Sharknado
- 05:00 – AI, Foresighting, Oracle & Muse
- 13:15 – Gravity & Aesthetics in models
- 17:15 – Generative AI as tomatos (no, really)
- 24:04 – The Information Super Highway, revisited
- 32:55 – AI as an UI; that’s it?
- 41:20 – Taste is our super power
- 47:25 – Lexical Gaps
- 56:05 – Cooling down
Links on the topics we discuss
- Foresight, a method in futures studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foresight_(futures_studies)
- Ben Burtt – Designer of the Star Wars sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBKKXjNf1sE
- Strategic Foresight – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_foresight
- Joshua Davis – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Davis_(designer)
- Taste for Makers – https://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
- Information Superhighway – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway
- Article about AI as a Muse, rather than an Oracle: https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2023/02/26/llm-as-muse-not-oracle.html
- The book Ron mentions: Beauty Is Our Business: A Birthday Salute to Edsger W. Dijkstra – https://amzn.to/4duxyA8
- SGI Indigo – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indigo
- The bosses of rival chip giants Nvidia and AMD are cousins: https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-jensen-huang-amd-lisa-su-taiwan-family-ai-chips-2023-11?international=true&r=US&IR=T
- Zork – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork
- Amazon – Just Walk Out https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-just-walk-out-dash-cart-grocery-shopping-checkout-stores
- Confusing Perspectives – https://www.reddit.com/r/confusing_perspective/
- Hoog – https://www.youtube.com/c/Hoogromulus/videos
- Capricorn One – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_One
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