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Previous Issues
- #33: Don't Outsource Your Thinking
1 February 2024 | Issue #33 In this issue: Don't outsource your thinking The George Carlin AI wasn't AI Becoming a cartoonist with AI Top genAI image tools Influencers: Not just for humans and pets anymore Don't outsource your thinking. The initial promise of technology is to automate tasks so we can focus on the tasks that matter. But with AI, we're starting to outsource the important things. Abandoning skills can lead to atrophy. There are skills that we all had before we outsourced those...Read more - Yes, AI Can Do Your Job, But It's Too Expensive
24 January 2024 | Issue #32 “Overall, our findings suggest that AI job displacement will be substantial, but also gradual—and therefore there is room for [government] policy and retraining to mitigate unemployment impacts,” According to MIT researchers, this is good news for those of us with jobs that are at risk of being displaced by AI. The theory is that it takes more time/cost to train LLMs to be able to do things like identify a prescription bottle. This research contradicts a study...Read more
- The real winner in John Henry vs. the Machine
18 January 2024 | Issue #31 This past week I saw a familiar theme across many articles: AI's impact on jobs. It may have started with the IMF reporting that AI will impact 40% of jobs and increase inequality. The thinking is that AI will replace jobs that are currently being outsourced to countries that don't have the infrastructure to retrain its people. The IMF also predicts that people who adopt AI, workers who tend to be younger and higher-income, will be see greater increases in their...Read more
- 17% Fewer Design Postings Since Image-Generation AI Tools Released
10 January 2024 | Issue #30 What stage are you in your AI journey? Heather Murray, who is a must follow if you're on LinkedIn, posted a survey last week asking her network this very question. It closely mirrored one thing I've been trying to stress in this newsletter: It feels like you're behind, but you're not. Now, her results are somewhat skewed because AI is what she talks about and it's what her audience wants to know about, so these are folks who are already engaged with AI. But of that...Read more
- The Return of Print!
3 January 2024 | Issue #29 Photo by Lex Photography: https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-holding-black-pen-1109541/ My word for 2024: Analog. After a year figuring out generative AI, we're going to see those practices put into use in 2024. Some of it will be impressive. Most of it will not. Even though the image generators will get better, much of what we'll see will be generic and boring by the end of the year. For those of you with design skills, you'll be in luck! Analog (non digital, non...Read more
- Completing the AI Puzzle: AIs Working Together to Conquer Design
20 December 2023 | Issue #28 Have you heard about COLE? It's a groundbreaking tool that could significantly alter the graphic design landscape. Named after Henry Cole, the creator of the first graphical Christmas card, COLE allows users to input a design idea and have an AI generate not only the image but also the accompanying text. Developed by a team from Microsoft Research Asia and Peking University, COLE combines various AI models, including Meta’s Llama2-13B and GPT-4V, with the Skia...Read more