Signals

Jony Ive wasn’t hired to design another iPhone.

He was hired to design what comes after the iPhone.

Not a device. A dimension.

Not another product. A paradigm.

This isn’t a launch.

It’s a systems design challenge,and there are maybe 3 people alive who’ve done that at scale. And Jony is one of them.

So no, OpenAI didn’t buy a device.

They bought a design l... See more

Ditto, like the “Black Mirror” episode, claims to use AI to run 1,000 possible dates, each with a different match, to generate the most optimal pairing. After that, it finds a time when both parties are available and picks a location. It even comes up with a few starter conversation topics based on why it paired the two people together.

On UC Berkeley and UC San Diego campuses, a trendy dating website wants users to do as little of the predate planning as possible. No longer does getting a date require swiping, a clever text exchange, approaching a stranger in a bar, or meeting through mutual friends. With Ditto AI, all users have to do is make a profile. Artificial intelligence d... See more

She works with a diaper company that just launched what it describes as the world’s first “self-decomposing” nappies, seeking to reduce the 18 billion diapers discarded in United States landfills each year. The diapers are seeded with plastic-eating fungi, which the company claims can decompose the discards into soil in just one year.

We need to stop treating soil like dirt,” he said. “In some sense, this field is in the early proof-of-concept stage, but Danielle’s research has centered on field studies, which have shown that fungi and plants hold promise as agents of environmental cleanup in a real-world context.”