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.

CHAPTERS

Timecodes

00:00 — Intro
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

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 h

ABOUT US

It's Just A Model podcast: https://itsjustamodel.com
Ron Kersic - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkersic// ronkersic
Peet Sneekes - https://peetsneekes.com

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