Chief Creative Officer. AOL Running Man → Second Life → Peacock → AI. I write UNDERTOW: the behaviors of the AI transition nobody has named yet
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Rosalía walked around NYC this week with a leather bag a meter long. If you live here, this is not as strange as it sounds, or looks. The bag apparently started as a prop for a short film about women over 70.
Dana Toder, the bag’s designer, was asked what Rosalía might have inside.
“Maybe another person. There’s room.”
That’s also the pitch for the three AI assistants on my phone. So far, none of them would fill it. At least Rosalía got a nice bag out of it.
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Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse.
We gave it 19 gene therapy vectors in a spreadsheet, a mouse model of epilepsy, access to a motorize surgery rig with cameras and one goal: reduce seizures.
It picked the drug. It picked the brain region. It derived the coordinates from three papers. Then it drove the stereotaxic arms into the brain and injected 250 nanolitres while watching the entry site through the rig camera for bleeding.
A licensed vet gated every irreversible step and held a physical kill switch to stop the AI agent.
Thread on what it decided, what it saw, and the moment it refused to let me override it.
[Writing this on the spot out of excitement, but I've been 18hrs in front of my laptop coding and coordinating this, so keeping it brief and descriptive, more cohesive thoughts on this soon...]
I remember Trillian from AIM/ICQ days of managing multi IM services. At that point with testing Assistants. Need an orchestrator. And we'll see which ones deliver best value
(my dot's delivery of interesting morning reads about art/music/culture/tech is far superior to Claude's, for example)
my Codex assistant startled me by suddenly speaking in Korean!?
(mystery solved, lol. forgot that K-drama was playing in the background so she shifted language automatically. like the early days of Alexa and Siri)
'upgraded' my Codex floating desktop character into a Yoshitomo Nara inspired, cleaver-wielding, death-stick smoking...
(customizing assistant look/feel/personality is 🏆)
If you've been in NYC/Brooklyn for a minute, you've seen Bráulio Amado's posters for Good Room, a club in Brooklyn.
Was reading that when he ran out of ideas, he started from photos of trash on the street. A napkin. Later, whatever was on his desk.
Sometimes other clients want the same thing. His reaction: “I’m like okay, but you’re not a club, you’re a beauty brand. I can’t just go on the streets and photograph trash, it doesn’t make sense!”
The club gets their work anyway. He often builds its posters from what other clients killed.
Where does your killed work go?
Interview by Jenny Brewer for It’s Nice That. Images © Bráulio Amado. itsnicethat.com/features/bra…
Their uniform inspiration is “Yakuza meets Lemaire”
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tuning what each agent brings me to read/watch/hear in the morning is slowly starting to improve
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