006 - It's Just A Model - Muse vs Oracle

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.CHAPTERSTimecodes00:00 — Intro02:00 – More episodes than Sharknado05:00 – AI, Foresighting, Oracle & Muse13:15 – Gravity & Aesthetics in models17:15 – Generative AI as tomatos (no, really)24:04 – The Information Super Highway, revisited32:55 –  AI as an UI; that’s it?41:20 –  Taste is our super power47:25  – Lexical Gaps56:05 – Cooling downLINKSForesight, 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=WBKKXjNf1sEStrategic Foresight – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_foresightJoshua Davis – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Davis_(designer)Taste for Makers – https://www.paulgraham.com/taste.htmlInformation Superhighway – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighwayArticle about AI as a Muse, rather than an Oracle: https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2023/02/26/llm-as-muse-not-oracle.htmlThe book Ron mentions: Beauty Is Our Business: A Birthday Salute to Edsger W. Dijkstra - https://amzn.to/4duxyA8SGI Indigo – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_IndigoThe 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=TZork – 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-storesConfusing Perspectives – https://www.reddit.com/r/confusing_perspective/Hoog – https://www.youtube.com/c/Hoogromulus/videosCapricorn One – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_OneABOUT USIt's Just A Model podcast: https://itsjustamodel.comRon Kersic -   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkersic// ronkersic  Peet Sneekes  - https://peetsneekes.comSUBSCRIBE Youtube Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjUC6ASFJ_xyHn2bRhoAHx1vXirR3Im9Y&si=uzcDK0cvst5MvjiWPodcasting 2.0 https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6790883Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3KQkzgWKYITlxEcT1BGEd4?si=f22d96f479ff4bd1Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/its-just-a-model/id1730230748?l=en-GBRSS https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2300082.rss