Munari’s call to action is to work for Man, not just for "creativity (or bizarreness)." A timeless reminder that true innovation can also mean refinement, and that placing a simple, functional object in the right place can be a radical act.
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Why do we obsess over inventing a "never-before-seen" chair, instead of perfecting the most comfortable one we already have? He uses wit to critique design’s endless pursuit of novelty, those "floral hammers" and "baroque" furniture pieces that so often sacrifice an object's true purpose.
I was looking through some old Bruno Munari material and stumbled upon his brilliant 1944 manifesto, "Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair." In it, he asks a question that stopped me:
So I choose to do that through my art.
Criticising and fighting are easy.
Proposing, supporting, and building are much harder.
This is my journey in politics, for anyone who wishes to read it.
People like to put labels on you. Especially in politics.
For me, it has always been difficult to fit into a simple political category.
And yet, as someone who believes in democracy, I also believe in participation and in taking a stand.`
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RIP Giorgos Papadakis
1951-2016
Digital mosaic created with hundreds of photos from his 44 years at Ant1 tv Greece. Commissioned by the broadcaster last year as a gift to him at his last show.
While the benchmarks (HumanEval, MBPP) look impressive, maybe a bit optimistic, what’s really interesting is how this model is stepping up to challenge the current frontier models. Don't cancel your Claude Code subscription yet. But try this beauty for free! iquestlab.github.io
#aicoding #vibecoding
The brand new OPEN SOURCE and FREE iQuest Coder is really impressive! In just 80Gb this is a surprisingly capable new coding model trained in three distinct phases. Built through pretraining, instruction fine-tuning, and rigorous alignment, it shows what focused, phased training can do #codingmodel
Most importantly, he proposes thoughtful ideas for a credible path forward.
In this era of polarizing hype and hate, we need more clear-eyed thinkers like Professor Marcus.
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In this recent MIT FutureTech lecture, he narrates the decades-long history of thinking machines, traces the various illusions that have captivated the AI world, and illustrates - with concrete examples - the serious limitations, and even the fundamental "stupidity," of current LLMs and GenAI models
Gary Marcus has long been one of the most courageous critics of GenAI, even before it was mainstream. He is not a hater - he uses AI as a compass - but he does not stand with the hype sellers. #AIBubble
For all of us who love technology and the challenge of human-machine synergy, it's essential to stay grounded. AGI and super-intelligence can serve as a North Star, but they must not become a broken promise. #AI #GaryMarcus
An experiment showing Claude Skills work with Gemini Flash, useful far beyond just Anthropic's ecosystem.
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Claude Skills Github: github.com/anthropics/s...
The @adobe.com Photoshop 1.0 source code:
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#computerhistory #ComputerGraphics #DigitalImaging
Apple's SHARP model generates photorealistic 3D Gaussian reps from a single image.
Free and Open source project.
GitHub: github.com/apple/ml-sharp
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.10685
These thoughts developed from a talk I gave at Alexander College in Cyprus. What's your creative compass?
Link: tsevis.com/creativity-i...
The curious ones understand something important. Your compass is your purpose, your reason for creating. The handbook is just methods, and methods keep changing. I just wrote about why this psychological cycle matters more than any AI debate.
#GenAI
The pattern is always identical. Some people freeze and wait for clarity. Others attack the new thing, defending familiar territory. But the most interesting response is transformation, turning that initial fear into curiosity and experimentation.
#DesignEducation
Every creative transition triggers the same ancient response—fear of the unknown. Cameras did this. Computers did this. Now AI.
#AICreativity
Creativity in the Age of Machine Intelligence: A Compass and a Handbook
Tuesday, 16 December at 11:30, at the Alexander College, Larnaka, Cyprus
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For the Computer Vision aficionados out there: Depth Anything 3 is here! ByteDance's latest model is way faster, more accurate, and more versatile than v2 or Meta's VGGT. A game-changer for computer vision, 3D reconstruction, and AR
Github: github.com/ByteDance-Se... ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2511.10647
The Fall 2024 Caltech Magazine cover I illustrated, mosaics of extinct species made from “isotopic tesserae”, just received a UCDA Design Award.
I don’t believe in awards, but I believe in academia. Honored to collaborate with Caltech’s scientists on this one.
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From sci-paper analysis to sophisticated software. With basic skills, I used ClaudeAI as a partner to build it. My story:
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#GenAI #ClaudeCode
When the Pioneer Plaque Becomes NSFW
Censorship, AI, and the War on Context: tsevis.com/censorship-a...
I will say that I think we are absolutely in a bubble. Things are crazy right now. However, that does not mean that AI is not going to change everything sooner or later, but I think both of those things can be true.
— Danny Fortson, US W.Coast correspondent, The Sunday Times
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We should approach this with hope, not fear, so that this significant change benefits everyone. #AI #EthicalAI
It’s a really important opinion piece, and coming from a leader like Suleyman makes it even more meaningful. People like him and everyone who cares about technology should speak up clearly about where AI is headed.
His main idea is that AI should remain a tool to help us, not something we mistake for human life. If we blur that line, we might focus on questions like whether machines deserve rights, rather than ensuring AI is safe and helpful for all.
New AI systems may soon look and sound so real that people could start believing they are conscious. But they are not. They don’t feel or think like we do.
"We should build AI for people, not to be a person!" Mustafa Suleyman, who helped start DeepMind and now leads Microsoft AI, wrote an essay with that quote as its title. The subtitle warns, "Seemingly Conscious AI is Coming." mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-co...
