Annie and Jon join us for a speculative discussion about the future of design. Will artificial intelligence and machine learning replace us in the future? How will we develop taste in automated systems? What will become of our industry when capitalism finally implodes?

Links Discussed

“Merlin Manndroid”

AirBNB Design

Artificial Intelligence

Assembly Line

Twitterbot

Algorithm

Pun

Machine Learning

Word Embedding

Pupper2Vec: Analyzing Internet Dog Slang with Machine Learning

Anthony Jeselnik

Markov Chain

Replika App

Creativity

Planet Money

AirBNB — Painting with Code

Material Design

Image Synthesis From Text With Deep Learning

Philosopher King

Basic Income

A/B Testing

Zine

Baby Boomers

The arc of the universe is long…

Dark Ages

List of Countries by Infant Mortality Rate

The Matrix

Pokémon Red Programmed in Minecraft

Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning

Musical Novelty Search — Evolutionary Algorithms + Ableton Live

Moonlight

Upstream Color

Dream Daddy

SmarterChild

Alexa

Siri