The future arrived last week in the form of WordPress with enhanced AI functions. I was not happy that this future downloaded and installed itself as a non-consensual update. The AI STUDIO button appears in the toolbar by default but disappears when you close the sidebar. I used the next paragraph to run some tests. […]
A November 24 article on Dezeen and probably everywhere else screamed outrage because, in the US from 1 July 2026, architecture is on track to no longer being considered a professional degree. Its opening sentence was Loans available to architecture students in the USA will be reduced under the terms of president Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, […]
This problem of efficiency of language conversion into unicode – and hence anything computer-related and especially AI related – isn’t going away. I’ll continue using the same Unicode Converter and pick up from I❤️U where I left it last week. It’s often the case that I❤️U2 is the response, so I added the newly-minted logogram 2 that […]
According to a story making the rounds a couple of years ago, if you asked AI to identify what the image below is an image of, the answer would be “apple” whereas any child of reading age could tell you it’s an orange with the word APPLE written on it. The glitch has probably been […]
ArchDaily keeps morphing. Until about a week ago, it had been possible to study images in the project galleries but a person had to have a subscription to read the articles. This week, I’m being encouraged to sign up for a free subscription that will enable me to look at 50 galleries per month while […]
Ahh 2023–2024! AI overtook the metaverse as a thing to talk about. NEOM was still a thing. Architecture lived on. For this the second week of the triennial, I did as for the first and I began at the beginning of the period – which is June 2023 – and worked towards the present. At times, it […]
