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undefined Low Compute Community
Feb 06, 2025
Like an HOA feature of a community housing sort of thing that keeps the amount of compute is consumes to a minimum. Perhaps that's for environmental reasons, or perhaps it's to keep the cost of the community low. Or, perhaps it's to keep the community from being a target for cyber attacks. Or, perhaps it's for quality of life reasons. A desireable attribute for some people who would prefer to live...
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undefined Pillsbury Bun Printing Filaments
Jan 10, 2025
In the 3D printing world, Pillsbury Printing Filaments are the go-to choice for those who want to create delicious, edible designs. These filaments are made from a blend of food-grade ingredients, allowing users to print intricate shapes and patterns that can be eaten. From custom cake toppers to edible decorations, Pillsbury Printing Filaments offer a fun and creative way to bring your culinary c...
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undefined drone disruption whips
Dec 13, 2024
Monofilament whips that are circulating on a rotating propeller-like contrivance that is designed to kinetically disrupt drones by whipping them down to the ground or otherwise introducing significant mechanical damage. The whips are designed to be deployed in areas where drones are causing problems, such as flying over private property, or in areas where drones are being used for surveillance or...
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undefined drone eradication service
Dec 13, 2024
A service with a service-style panel / work van that drives around neighborhoods, offering to eradicate drones that are causing problems, stuck in trees, or otherwise being a nuisance. The service is a kind of drone catcher, with a net and a way to safely capture and remove drones from the environment....
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undefined IBM Ghostwriter Selectric® System 3600 The ghostwriter that writes with you..not for you.
Dec 10, 2024
IBM Introduced the IBM Selectric® typewriter and I have been wondering what a typewriter — a physical material object — might be in some future. Part of this comes from the experiences of using GitHub Copilot while doing creative writing and seeing what it wants to try and do in terms of continuing trains of thought. It's not quite the same as a typewriter, but it's a kind of writing assistant tha...
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undefined LACMA BOTTO DAO Generative Sculpture
Jun 24, 2024 (* Dec 09, 2024)
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undefined Fluke Torque 8080 Turing Clamp
Nov 23, 2024 (* Dec 09, 2024)
What are the USB/HDMI/ dongles in a world of AI agents, portable devices. Something that someone surpresses language model and Near AGI kinetics. Or some kind of device that temporarily disables intelligences somehow. This is like that conceit in Atlas that the director asked me for a device that would surpress an AI for a few minutes. This is that. It's a device that temporarily disables an AI. I...
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undefined AR Eyes
Dec 06, 2024
Medicated (or something..) eyedrops to help with the deleterious side effects of prolonged use of projective or passive displays very close to the eyes. The AR Eyes are a speculative design fiction artifact that is intended to provoke thought and discussion about the potential future of augmented reality and the implications of prolonged use of AR devices on human health. The AR Eyes are a fiction...
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undefined Food, Drug & Algorithm Administration (FDAA)
Dec 06, 2024
A policy implication in the form of an allusion/implication of a government agency called the Food, Drug & Algorithm Administration (FDAA). The FDAA is a fictional government agency that is responsible for the regulation of algorithms in the same way that the FDA regulates food and drugs. The FDAA is a speculative design fiction artifact that is intended to provoke thought and discussion about the...
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undefined TEAC Hallucination Hobblers
Dec 04, 2024
Imagining equipment or some facility that is able to suppress the tendency of technological intelligences to hallucinate. This is a Design Fiction artifact that imagines a world where hallucination is a problem that needs to be managed. Hallucination Hobblers are a Design Fiction artifact that imagines a world where hallucination is a problem that needs to be managed. They almost go along with the...
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undefined Oraculator by Penguin-Mcintosh
Nov 23, 2024 (* Nov 24, 2024)
The Oraculator is a midcentury modern AV cabinet with equipment device that is an AI control unit containing all the books in ones library. A collab between Penguin & McIntosh. The functionality is a bit like a home library with a conversational AI that can read books to you in the author's voice, and even engage in conversation with you about the book. It's a bit like having a book club in your h...
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undefined On Intelligent Injury Predictive Forecast Implantable
Nov 23, 2024
Appears in Applied Intelligence the newspaper I made for the AI Policy and Governance Working Group London workshop. You can still get a copy of the newspaper at the Near Future Laboratory shop....
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undefined Leica M808 HD/HV
Nov 23, 2024
The challenge of verifying proof of humanness in the age of AI is a complex issue. The notion here is that this is a device/consumer camera that can verify that the image taken is of a human — perhaps through some kind of biometric verification, sensing of blood flow, pupil dilation, etc. Not perfect and there are plenty of hacks/workarounds to deceive the operating system and sensors. Embedded da...
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undefined Rising Cases of Emanations Dependency Syndrome systemic intelligent agent emanations dependency syndrome (EDS for short)
Nov 22, 2024
Systemic Intelligent Agent Emanations Dependency Syndrome (EDS) is a cognitive ailment that arises from the constant use of AI-driven tools and services, leading to a decline in critical thinking, decision-making skills, and personal autonomy. The Equilibrium Consensus is a set of principles that guide the responsible use of AI and algorithmic systems, emphasizing the importance of human oversight...
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undefined Adventure Lab Service Booth
Nov 03, 2024 (* Nov 20, 2024)
A kind of Fotomat booth but not for film more like a place where you get various kinds of operations and procedures and fixes and repairs done on AI-y things like model repair. Maybe an up-market version of Unc Henry's — the Genius Bar to the iFixit guy.
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undefined Jeep NVIDIA Wagoneer
Nov 20, 2024
A tricked out Jeep Wagoneer with some kind of infused intelligence engine that does something curious and inexplicable because, well — it's easier to imagine the boring stuff now like self-driving, but what else might a vehicle do?
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undefined insightful device
Nov 19, 2024
The Insightful Device is a small, handheld device that provides a real-time, personalized, and contextually relevant stream of information to the user. The device is designed to be a personal assistant, providing information and insights that are tailored to the user's interests and preferences. The device uses a combination of sensors, machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing...
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undefined Unknown Known Language Models UKLMs
Nov 19, 2024
Is this something where you have a guaranteed unknown known language model to practice operating in edge cases where LLMs fail because they don't contain all knowledge? Or is it a way to train LLMs to recognize when they're in a situation where they don't have the knowledge they need?
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undefined BREECHER 2-1 Last One Out, Turn Out The Lights
Nov 19, 2024
An algorithmic film because films don't always have to be the same everytime.
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undefined Careers at Level 5 Autonomous
Nov 17, 2024
Image from the Near Future Laboratory Design Fiction sketch Level 5 Jobs Ad
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undefined Proof Orb Tiny, mobile, privacy-preserving affordance for verifying humanness
Nov 13, 2024
The goal of the hardware team at Tools for Humanity is to provide products that on a high level meet the following requirements:
Validate humanness & create a unique code to verify uniqueness in a privacy-preserving manner, as seamlessly as possible
Ready for mobile and outdoor use (think camera equipment)
Continuous mobile use throughout the day without significant downtime
Enable detection of i...
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undefined Unisys-Async™ Sensors and Adapters
Nov 13, 2024
Unisys-Async™ fundamentally challenged how we understand images and their operational logics
The 'operational image' - images generated and used by machines, not primarily for human perception, but for computational processing and decision-making. These images exist in technological domains like military reconnaissance, industrial production, and surveillance systems, operating beyond human visua...
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undefined Jonske Prompt Remediation Services
Nov 12, 2024
What do you do when your prompts are beginning to fail or decline in effectivity as base models evolve or change?
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undefined IntelliPride #1 Hallucination Hobblers #1 Best Seller! Staked Guarantee!
Nov 11, 2024
Used by all the big players such as MIRO, Johnson & Johnson, TED Promotion Services & Systems, the US Department of Edge Computing, NASA, the East European Space Agency, Los Angeles Department of City Planning, Anthropic Integrated Intelligences, Applied Sensemaking, Hansgrohe, Krups, MoMA, the Tate Modern, Doug Aitken Labs, RadioShack, Intel Autonomous Home, IKEA, L.L. Bean, Bechtel Domestic, Joh...
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undefined probability rights Hustwit Has Your Back — and Is The Number One Hedge Against Unfair Use & Abuse Claims!
Nov 06, 2024
We will negotiate probability rights for any, some, or all of your generative productions whether alternative realities, art, architecture, code, dreams, entertainments, explanations, film, games, hallucinations, highlights, jpegs, legal briefs/legislation, manufactured stories, policy documents, structured stories — and more! Hedge against the possibility that your original work will receive clai...
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undefined Probability Insurance
Nov 06, 2024
This came up while listening to the podcast interview with Gary Hustwit where he had to cover rights for the music as if the music will always be in the film even though the film is generative and scenes with the music may not show up — a disjuncture between now and what could be. So what would this be? Insurance to protect against possible outcomes — but isn't this what insurance is anyway?...
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undefined Kingsford Hydrogen Briquettes The Way BBQ Should Taste!
Nov 06, 2024
Maybe add an AI twist to the classic BBQ briquette?
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undefined FLIR RTX 0286 Imagine Enhancer
Nov 04, 2024
A bolt-on kit for your AEV - autonomous electric vehicle — that enhances the models/algorithms to navigate in kinetic weather environments. Maybe a bit shady or the equivalent of fuel additives in its shotty-ness?
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undefined Autastic™ Certified On-Chain ESI Pillows Autastic is part of the Erewhon Brand Entanglement
Nov 03, 2024
An Emotional Support Intelligence thing to hold.
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undefined Largely Languid Models Esalen Brand Emotionally Supportive Intellectigences
Nov 03, 2024
Largely Languid Models are branded and bespoke training sets that augment off-the-shelf LLMs to make them have certain characteristics desireable to the healing/healthy/languid Zoomrs & Doomrs.
Characteristics:
Pacing and Tone: The Largely Languid Model is specifically calibrated to produce text that flows gently, using long...
Characteristics:
Pacing and Tone: The Largely Languid Model is specifically calibrated to produce text that flows gently, using long...
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undefined Steelcase ADU Steelcase ADU
Jul 04, 2024 (* Nov 03, 2024)
What is Steelcase in a future where office furniture is a thing of the past? When even the idea of remote work is archaic and referred to as 'trad'?
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undefined IKEA Epistemological Value Chain Furniture
Sep 20, 2024 (* Oct 28, 2024)
This made me think of an IKEA from a possible near future (or an entangled quantum adjacency) in which IKEA provides modules that can be fit together to ‘create value’ (whatever that may mean in this future/adjacency). IKEA like LangChain? Depending on the arrangement of furniture agentic opportunities arise? cf. The IKEA Conversation Pit Maybe this is not the naive sense of 'furniture' but perhap...
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undefined Fractional Employment Ad
Oct 25, 2024 (* Oct 28, 2024)
An ontology in-world in which value-creators, which includes digital twins, participate in multiple entanglements/companies, balancing autonomy and project-based collaboration across industries.
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undefined Where's My McLuhan Am I right!?
Oct 28, 2024
This is the AI / LLM you pull out to bring some expert into a conversation to settle a matter..or perhaps not!
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undefined Sears Cineai
Oct 22, 2024 (* Oct 28, 2024)
Sears brand is somehow back and this cinema system is a container for this project to represent an evolution in personal entertainment / visual storytelling. All the ideas are packed into this device, inexplicably under the Sears brand. Perhaps a merger with Warner Bros instrumented by a hedge fund that happened to obtain Sears in receivership when the brand was dismembered....
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undefined Pocket School Learning Academy Furniture
Oct 28, 2024
Bedroom furniture that is a pocket school / learning academy at home. Education has moved to the home. This does not preclude f2f learning, but now 'f2f' is also meant to include telepresence, which has now come back as it is a different idiom than 'virtual reality' which attained bad connotations of escapism. Same thing, different idiom. There are also mechanics of these AI-based pocket schools t...
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undefined On Chain Betting
Oct 28, 2024
There is a kind of network of simulated sports that flourishes. Playing hard contact sports is no longer tenable for a variety of reasons, one of which is the physical damage that occurs to the body in heavy contact sports, a shift from gladitorial dynamics, perhaps, but maybe not? Maybe the interest in simulation and the compelling nature of such the way E-Sports has flourished? The idea is that...
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undefined highlights films an object in a box
Sep 20, 2024
Could we make a device that reads through a transcript / captions of a film and just shows you the highlights? Generative content in the mode of generative film / Eno but automated and somewhat ridiculous. As a contrivance, you'd put the film in on a cartridge, perhaps something like a floppy disk and it would have a display that would then unfurl the highlights of the film rather than the whole t...
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undefined Blind Chef Show Breville Presents..
Aug 14, 2024
A showvertorial that is an advertisement for a home cooking appliance that cooks/sous-chefs for you and is so easy to create Star-level meals that even a blind chef can use it! Featuring Dean Johnson, artist & Chef.
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undefined androids dream of electric sheep book ad
Jul 11, 2024 (* Aug 14, 2024)
An advertisement for a book that helps you understand the sometimes errant and quirky behaviors of your various AI-based assistants as they develop simple to mild to complicated neuroses.
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undefined Kohler 8080 The Bold Moves of Kohler
Jul 05, 2024 (* Aug 14, 2024)
When AI is everywhere, why wouldn't it be in your toilet tapping in to the optimized biological human and human potential through monitoring and managing sort of vibe.
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undefined Access to Quality ElEms A Fundamental Human Right
Aug 13, 2024
I saw an ad on an NYC Subway that was said something like, 'Everyone deserves quality skin care' or some such. What's that in the LLM future.
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undefined Machine Intelligence Insurance
Aug 10, 2024
How do you mitigate against misleading intelligences?
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undefined This is Your Brain on LLMs
Aug 09, 2024
What happens when you don't have to think? Image of a kid staring
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undefined Dunkin Drive To You
Aug 07, 2024
Ad for autnomous dunkin donut coffee & donuts cart. The full display ad and art is somewhere in the Autonome project folder somewhere.
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undefined get lost game show
Aug 06, 2024
the game show where people try to 'get lost' — off the grid, out of the view of the surveillance system, with your host brad barrish but maybe it's the guy that hosted the gong show but we name him brad barrish who had this idea and told me about it while we were having coffee at fatty mart one day. Maybe this is a review of the latest season in smart The New Yorker style, or an advertisement for...
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undefined Carnation Farm Fresh Models Delivered Daily Instant Models Available For Easy Storage
Jul 22, 2024 (* Aug 05, 2024)
What is a world in which LLMs are conjured daily for various 'freshness' needs? Could a model brand deliver value by saying its models are built on the latest greatest overnight evolutions in human thought, action, events, etcetera?
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undefined Breville 8080 OneTouch Home Garden
Jul 28, 2024 (* Aug 02, 2024)
A home garden with integral BrevilleIntelligence capabilities to optimize nutrients, hydro-biometric flows. Optimized exposure therapies manage internal visual sensors to manage growth rates so as to deliver the most nutritous, boutiful home farm vegetables.
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undefined SOC 'Special Purpose' models Wide Range of Lightly Used SOC Models
Jul 04, 2024
LLMs that are specific to various SOC Occupational categories/designations.
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