Your monthly non-spammy newsletter from your friends at oio.
This past month has been pretty busy on our side working full steam on some projects which unfortunately we cannot talk about yet. However, this month has also been very fruitful for our mission of exploring, workshopping, and writing about the present and future of human and machine intelligences.
Some news from the oio space.
Last week we've been running a machine learning workshop called "Untouched", in collaboration with MAInD Lugano and Hongik University in Seoul, where remote participants had to design and prototype interactions in public spaces for the post-pandemic. We are working on the project documentation that will be shared soon, but in the meantime you can take a look at a gesture-based passwords for Amazon Lockers that participants prototyped in just 2 days!
We are planning to organise more of these experiences in the future. If you are interested, keep following our newsletter and social media, where we'll be posting updates about them very soon, or reach out to hello@oio.studio.
the book!
What do robots, starfish and toasters think about? As time goes by, objects and all the artefacts serving our daily life become more and more intuitive. Self-driving cars communicating with each other to avoid accidents, alarm clocks able to wake us up when we feel less sleepy... What will they think? How will they treat us? And how do we treat other kinds of intelligence?
Our own Matteo Loglio wrote and illustrated a book for children about intelligence - starfish, toasters and self-driving cars. You can find it on the online store of publishing house Corraini Edizioni (English and Italian), or read about it on Fast Company
📕 Get a copy, before they run out!
This month Roby, our AI creative director, has posted some interesting thoughts of his own. Besides its typical whimsical dreamed quotes, it also recently started posting some product sketches and interiors visions too. Take a look at these generated plants below, absolute madness.
Last week Google launched Alto (A Little Teachable Object) - a machine learning product, open source on GitHub, that can be trained to recognise objects and make sense of the world around it.
Alto is a project that we helped shape before setting up oio, so we're naturally very excited to see it out in the wild!
Alto - in all its cuteness - encapsulates a lot of the thinking and reflections we do every day in our studio. While being just a simple fun experiment, Alto lets us peek into our future together with machines.
How can we design products that learn?
How can they be helpful for designers as well as broader audiences?
How do we train them?
In a future very near you these questions will need to be answered, and we're already hard at work, attempting to do so.
This month there was no shortage of AI content - from workshops and books all the way to products and experiments. This is only the beginning, so stay tuned for more juicy AI-related content and products.
Our Discord community is growing, we are now almost 200 people (not on Discord? Join now!). Here some cherry-picked links for you:
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✌️Have a great rest of the week everyone!