Will Douglas Heaven

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commie bf

Song of the year #2 open.spotify.com/track/6VzVGL...

Janus Modal

Song of the year #1 open.spotify.com/track/0gwNMB...

Öoo | Official Trailer YouTube video by Games Must Play

Game of the year! In Öoo you play a cute little caterpillar trying to escape the labrynthine intestines of a monstrous bird using only the bombs in your butt. Trust me, play it. The design of this four-hour puzzle game is just flawless youtu.be/tSJyHEjyGuA?...

Leaving aside all the ethics of AI fashion models... did no-one look at this before printing??? Just try to work out where her knees are and how they're connected to her feet and hips. Bizarre to choose a zigzag dress that's just going to emphasise any weird contours too

word of the year pls

I had some fun speaking at #sxswlondon this week. Video for FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AI should be coming soon!

Starship: Dead End? What happened on Test Flight 9?

"We will look back at this period in history and realise that letting a billionaire’s ego drive innovation — rather than as part of a collective effort, as seen with Apollo and the Saturn V — was a grave mistake."

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-d...

How AI can help supercharge creativity Forget one-click creativity. These artists and musicians are finding new ways to make art using AI, by injecting friction, challenge, and serendipity into the process.

I think I forgot to post this in the travel chaos, but I spoke to @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social for MIT Tech Review about AI, creativity and more, as part of a big feature on how AI is affecting our creativity. I think we have no idea, basically.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/10/1...

you need to watch these clips

How AI can help supercharge creativity Forget one-click creativity. These artists and musicians are finding new ways to make art using AI, by injecting friction, challenge, and serendipity into the process.

one of the highlights in the issue is this from @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social on how AI can be co-opted to help supercharge creativity in unusual ways. I want to go to an algorave! www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/10/1...

Good breakdown on tariffs

My *third* time on @scifri.bsky.social but first time recording in the NYC studio! Hear me and @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social bring AGI conversations to reality and talk about the issues that really matter, like who controls the power behind AI.

I think Kevin Roose needs to talk to more people outside San Francisco www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation

Possibly the first case of chatbot logs being released under freedom of information laws www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

Yes yes yes! This is hands down one of the best things I've read about AGI, the techno-fetish that's once again grabbing mainstream attention

AGI is whatever we made it to be

It's good to have Mike Watt back in my life

Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data The powerful new AI model is designed to analyze intercepted communications – but experts say such systems can exacerbate biases and are prone to making mistakes

Israel is training a spy chatbot on vast numbers of surveilled Arabic calls www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

The Revolution will be AI-icized

What’s next for AI in 2025 You already know that agents and small language models are the next big things. Here are five other hot trends you should watch out for this year.

More: we picked generative virtual worlds as a hot trend to watch this year www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/08/1...

If you're curious about Muse, Microsoft's new generative gameplay model that produces fuzzy footage of video games that don't (yet) exist, this from @mtrc.bsky.social is easily the best explainer: www.possibilityspace.org/blog-before-...

What’s next for AI in 2025 You already know that agents and small language models are the next big things. Here are five other hot trends you should watch out for this year.

More: we picked generative virtual worlds as a hot trend to watch this year www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/08/1...

The act of coding, like sketching or rubber ducking, is also an act of thinking through something. Prompting an LLM might also be a thinking process, but we have to reflect on what each approach helps us with. I think differently while taking notes than just turning it over in my head.

How Harrison Ford brought a strike over video game AI to the world’s attention Voice actors demanding compensation when AI generates performances from their work have taken industrial action since July

Hi, I spoke to actor Sarah Elmaleh about Harrison Ford’s recent comments on AI and how they’ve brought attention to the current SAG-AFTRA strike

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/f...

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