Future is now
A collection about headlines, insights and stories than seem futuristic, but actually happening today.
Collection by Leoᵍᵐ
Fast Company
MoMA’s newest artist is an AI trained on 180,000 works, from Warhol to Pac-Man
· Unsupervised reaches new highs in what’s possible with AI, creating a breathing being that synthesizes 180,000 artworks from MoMA.
· Shared by 230, including Robert Scoble, Nathan Benaich, Oliver Raduner, Pascal Sulser, Stephanie A Kowalski
MarketWatch
Artificial intelligence has advanced so much, it wrote this article
3 min · · Natural language processing rivals humans' skills. · Shared by 217, including Ste Davies, Nige Roberts-Willson, Kyle Bunch, Iain Brown, PhD, John Nosta, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Howard Getson, Stephan Woodtli, Carla Gentry 🎶, Jansnet, LARRY ELKAN
The Atlantic
The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job
20+ min · · When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits? · Shared by 209, including ➤ Cyril Druesne, Brian Tomlinson ⚡️, Ahmad Ragab, Charlie Oliver, Jakub Ferenc, fernand0, Colin Wright, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Matthew Turland, Julien Tanay, Yoav Ganbar (🥑 Builder.io/Qwik)
Axios
Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help
1 min · · The AI pair programmer is a useful assistant, but won't be replacing human developers any time soon · Shared by 203, including Thomas Power, Yves Mulkers, Terence Mills, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Clemens M. Schuster, Katja Evertz, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Amy Webb 🤷🏻♀️, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Nils Hitze, Harold Sinnott, Steven Sinofsky
Bloomberg
Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home
· Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Read this story on Bloomberg. · Shared by 200, including Walter Hickey, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Ken Norton, Jameson Lopp, Chris Isak, Veni Kunche, Christian Müller, Bob Sutton, Owen Williams ⚡, Max Niederhofer, Kainaz Amaria, hiten.eth, 💥 Katie Martell, Meghan M. Biro ⚡️, Bri Kimmel, Anne Helen Petersen, Adam Grant, Ekaterina Walter, Karen K. Ho, Edney Souza 🧙♂️
WIRED
Will Artificial Intelligence Enhance or Hack Humanity?
20+ min · · Historian Yuval Noah Harari and computer scientist Fei-Fei Li discuss the promise and perils of the transformative technology with WIRED editor in chief Nicholas Thompson. · Shared by 189, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Jeff Bussgang, Antonio Vieira Santos, Bertrand Maltaverne, Yuval Noah Harari, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gerd Leonhard, Cyrill Schmid, Thomas Power, Backchannel, Alexandra Wong, Ian M Calvert, Nicolas Berg, Dayyan Smith, Yvette Dubel, 瑞拿頭, Klaus Eck, Clemens M. Schuster, fernand0, Toby Coppel
Fast Company
Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram. They may be the future
3 min · · Last year, the New York Public Library released an experiment to put the full text of novels in its Instagram Stories. Today, an estimated 300,000 people are reading books this way. · Shared by 181, including Charles Adler, Tom Connor, Rick Powell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Joseph Finder, Kevin Kruse, Sue B. The Instagram Expert📲, Jessica Gioglio, Katja Evertz, NY Public Library, Ines Bieler, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa, John Koetsier, Gianluca Diegoli, Nick Floro, Damien Van Achter, Sprout Social, Fanzo
The New York Times
JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace
6 min · · “Everydays — The First 5000 Days,” by the artist known as Beeple, set a record for a digital artwork in a sale at Christie’s. · Shared by 159, including Azeem Azhar, Michael (मुकेश), Howard Getson, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Sandy.Polygon, Ben Parr, Mitch Joel, Scott Shapiro, The Last Shitposter, John Paul Caponigro, The Indian Express, morningmoneyben, Guy Kawasaki, LucJodet.eth 🇫🇷 in Paris 🦇🔊, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Michael Seemann, Scott Brinker, Allison Arieff, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Christopher Knight
The Economist
An artificial intelligence predicts the future
3 min · · This publication draws on a wide range of expertise to illuminate the year ahead. Even so, all our contributors have one thing in common: they are human. But advances in technology mean it is now… · Shared by 144, including Nando de Freitas 🏳️🌈, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Kevin Kelly, Damir Kusar, Jonathan Kogan, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Power, Eric Topol, Ilya Sutskever, Howard Getson, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Katja Evertz
euronews
Army of seed-firing drones will plant 100 million trees by 2024
2 min · · Meet the company using drones to combat biodiversity loss. · Shared by 138, including Martin Varsavsky, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, hiten.eth, UN Biodiversity
Forbes
Philippe Starck: ‘Design Is Going To Disappear’
4 min · · Philippe Starck is a name that became a brand. From the habitation module on the new international space station to Steve Jobs’ yacht, Philippe Starck’s list of achievements speaks volumes. I… · Shared by 136, including Ines Bieler, Liliane Ferrari ™, Kat, Stephan Woodtli, Matthias Lampe, Bob E. Hayes, Gabriele, John Nosta, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Nige Roberts-Willson
The Independent
New EU ‘right to repair’ laws require technology to last for a decade
2 min · · New devices will also have to come with repair manuals and be made in such a way that they can be dismantled using conventional tools · Shared by 131, including Neil Hart 💙, Katja Evertz, David Wallace-Wells, Stephan Woodtli, David Madden
Ars Technica
When coffee makers are demanding a ransom, you know IoT is screwed
7 min · · Watch along as hacked machine grinds, beeps, and spews water. · Shared by 122, including Jennifer Ouellette, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Tamara McCleary, Marsha Collier, Ser Jeff Garzik, Guy Kawasaki, Scott Jenson left for Mastodon, John Koetsier, Backchannel, Ric “el pony esponjoso”, felix salmon, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Korben, Nicolas Babin, Esther Schindler
joanielemercier.com
The problem of CryptoArt
10 min · · I spent the past 15 years flying to festivals, galleries, events, art fairs to exhibit and distribute my work while building my art practice. Most of these projects are unsustainable, so when I dec… · Shared by 112, including Eric Holthaus, Ethan Marcotte, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, TonyParisi.eth, tante, pizza.lottie 🍕, Kevin Roberts, Duncan Geere has left 🔰, Neil Hart 💙, Casey REAS
My Modern Met
Artist Uses AI to Generate Realistic Faces of Subjects From World’s Most Iconic Paintings
2 min · · Denis Shiryaev created a neural network art project that generated realistic faces of subjects from iconic paintings. · Shared by 103, including Kevin Roberts, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Bob E. Hayes
MIT Technology Review
Teens are anxious and depressed after three hours a day on social media
2 min · · A study published today in the journal JAMA Psychiatry suggests that teenagers who spend more than three hours a day on social media are more likely to develop mental health problems including… · Shared by 103, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Peter Schmidhuber, Thomas Power, John Nosta, luis antónio santos, Kelly Hoey, Gerrit Eicker, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Brian Solis, Howard Getson