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The Future of the Professions, by Richard Susskind & David SusskindAs the authors look to the future, their arguments are underpinned by...

The Future of the Professions, by Richard Susskind & David Susskind

As the authors look to the future, their arguments are underpinned by a belief in an 'AI fallacy’. The story goes that machines will never be able to do X because they cannot do X like humans would. The fallacy is rooted in critics’ preoccupation with process rather than outcome.
"It is about whether systems can outperform human beings – full stop".

https://www.amonle.com/the-future-of-the-professions/

#AI #artificialintelligence #futureofwork

“A common theme of all versions of a web 3.0 is decentralisation. The semantic web breaks down barriers, the crypto bros scream...

“A common theme of all versions of a web 3.0 is decentralisation. The semantic web breaks down barriers, the crypto bros scream “decentralisation” from the rooftops, and the spatial web evangelists hark back to the innocence of the original version of a decentralised Internet.” 2/2

The Spatial Web, by Gabriel René & Dan MapesHow the convergence of exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain...

The Spatial Web, by Gabriel René & Dan Mapes

How the convergence of exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and extended reality, will manifest as a transformational, spatial network. 1/2

https://www.amonle.com/the-spatial-web

#AI #AR #blockchain

Expect these multiple square kilometre zones to lay down markers for the rest of the country, attracting investors, and therefore jobs and...

Expect these multiple square kilometre zones to lay down markers for the rest of the country, attracting investors, and therefore jobs and interest, but in an environment with even less social value. Expect a two-tier Britain as the first stage of this process, with a second stage in which it may become ‘inevitable’ that the rest of the country follows the Freeport lead.
This is the true promise of #Brexit. 2/2

https://www.amonle.com/crisis-in-architecture/#form-follows-finance

“We also have so-called ‘Freeports', which are, in fact, vast tracts of land, inland, with relaxed financial and, naturally,...

“We also have so-called ‘Freeports', which are, in fact, vast tracts of land, inland, with relaxed financial and, naturally, planning legislation.” 1/2

https://www.amonle.com/crisis-in-architecture/#form-follows-finance

#brexit #freeports #planning #urbandesign

Steve Jobs infamously raided Xerox PARC for their ideas on the graphical user interface, which eventually found their way to Apple’s...

Steve Jobs infamously raided Xerox PARC for their ideas on the graphical user interface, which eventually found their way to Apple’s graphical user interface operating systems, and huge commercial success. The Architecture Machine Group was no less influential.

However, their impact has been more on the long tail of technological development – with an example such as Dataland … still relevant to the ideas such as Apple’s most recent product of 2023, the #VisionPro. 2/2

Soft Architecture Machineshttps://amonle.com/soft-architecture-machinesNegroponte’s call to adventure came through his stance that...

Soft Architecture Machines
https://amonle.com/soft-architecture-machines

Negroponte’s call to adventure came through his stance that “computer-aided architecture without machine intelligence would be injurious because the machine would not understand what it was aiding”. 1/2

The entire premise … is that we all, intrinsically, know how to build, and should be empowered to do so without centralised authority, or...

The entire premise … is that we all, intrinsically, know how to build, and should be empowered to do so without centralised authority, or protectionist professional input. The Timeless Way of Building posed the question “what works?”. A Pattern Language answers, ”this works” 2/2

A Pattern Languagehttps://amonle.com/a-pattern-languageA Pattern Language is an instruction manual for humanity, to build everything from...

A Pattern Language
https://amonle.com/a-pattern-language

A Pattern Language is an instruction manual for humanity, to build everything from small objects to entire towns and cities …

… It is written for the non-professional to follow a series of organisational rules (patterns), assembled & executed according to the relevance of the context (sequences), in such a way that they are as much an observation of the best of humanity, as a manual to recreate it. 1/2

"The quality without a name, whose themes pervade the book, is deeply connected to our human nature, and to nature itself. Its...

"The quality without a name, whose themes pervade the book, is deeply connected to our human nature, and to nature itself. Its recognition requires taking several steps back from the methodical and self-conscious world of professional practice." 2/2

The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexanderhttps://www.amonle.com/what-makes-a-house-cosy/"This is not a book about...

The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
https://www.amonle.com/what-makes-a-house-cosy/

"This is not a book about architecture, at least not in the sense that you might find in the architecture section of a bookstore … no, this is a book about faith.
It has more in common with religion, and perhaps philosophy, than with form-making and construction … 1/2

#patternlanguage

It turns out that if you have a system like that, it will be very good at doing the things that it was optimised for, but not very good at...

It turns out that if you have a system like that, it will be very good at doing the things that it was optimised for, but not very good at being resilient, not very good at changing when things are different. 3/3

… and what that suggests is the things that having a lot of experience with play was letting you do, was to be able to deal with...

… and what that suggests is the things that having a lot of experience with play was letting you do, was to be able to deal with unexpected challenges better, rather than that it was allowing you to attain any particular outcome … One of the things that's really fascinating that's coming out in AI now … he current systems that we have, the languages, they're designed to optimise. They're really exploit systems … here's what your goal is. Now, you go out and maximise that goal. 2/3

Ezra Klein with Alison Gopnik #play #AI #artificialintelligencehttps://pca.st/episode/7f8fe9df-fee2-4b38-935b-d3a88a5a3663?t=1488.0You put a...

Ezra Klein with Alison Gopnik #play #AI #artificialintelligence

https://pca.st/episode/7f8fe9df-fee2-4b38-935b-d3a88a5a3663?t=1488.0

You put a child in a rich environment where there's lots of opportunities for play … it turns out that if you look 30 years later, you have these sleeper effects, where these children who played are not necessarily getting better grades three years later, but they're not going to prison, and their health is better, and their salaries are higher … 1/3

The other kind of A.I.https://www.amonle.com/the-other-kind-of-ai/The challenge and implications of expanding the definition of...

The other kind of A.I.
https://www.amonle.com/the-other-kind-of-ai/

The challenge and implications of expanding the definition of architecture.

Four architects who did it successfully, and helped to shape the digital landscape from the 1980s to the present day.

“It takes a body to understand the world”#chatGPT...

“It takes a body to understand the world”

#chatGPT #gpt4

https://medium.com/the-conversation/it-takes-a-body-to-understand-the-world-why-chatgpt-and-other-llms-dont-know-what-they-re-saying-856c114529f6

… & with a different #codesign approach, UrbanistAI … 2/2https://urbanistai.com/

… & with a different #codesign approach, UrbanistAI … 2/2

https://urbanistai.com/

Step by step, technologies are enabling wider participation in spatial design.Here, #minecraft …...

Step by step, technologies are enabling wider participation in spatial design.

Here, #minecraft … 1/2

https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2023/01/26/reinventing-london-how-minecraft-education-is-helping-students-design-a-greener-croydon/

Matrix Games Handbook"Play is the highest form of investigation"https://1.hu.bb/matrix-games-handbook/Traditional wargames work...

Matrix Games Handbook

"Play is the highest form of investigation"

https://1.hu.bb/matrix-games-handbook/

Traditional wargames work well for simulating scenarios “where the background to the problem being addressed is well understood, while Matrix Games are more suited to “situations that are future-based and novel and for which we do not have real-world examples”