FEATURE
Google's vision for the future of artificial intelligence
Google's research arm showed off a whiz-bang assortment of artificial intelligence (AI) projects it's incubating, aimed at everything from mitigating climate change to helping novelists craft prose.
The dozen-or-so AI projects that Google Research unfurled at a Manhattan media event are in various stages of development, with goals ranging from societal improvement (such as better health diagnoses) to pure creativity and fun (text-to-image generation that can help you build a 3D image of a skirt-clad monster made of marzipan).
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CREATIVITY
Channel stress into creativity after a long day at work
Art therapy reduces stress, strengthens your creative muscles, decreases anxiety and depression, helps you process emotions and increases self-awareness.
I lean toward photography and baking - what about you?
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CURIOSITY
I talked to 70 parents who raised highly successful adults—here's the 'rare' skill they all taught their kids
Parenting expert and author Margot Bisnow, who is a mother to two entrepreneurial sons, interviewed 70 families who raised confident and successful kids. Here's the "rare" skill they all taught their kids at an early age. The one that they all agreed on: curiosity.
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Four Ways to Inspire Humble Curiosity
While this is written with students in mind, it applies to everyone.
Humility and curiosity can encourage everyone to be passionate about learning and open to others’ perspectives. - Practice listening with fascination - Emphasize the value of questions - Draw on awe to encourage exploration - Normalize uncertainty
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EMPATHY
The Danger of Empathy: The Belief We Know What Others Are Feeling
Should we give up on empathy?
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VISUAL
Visualization of Alphabet's Income Statement
Never have I been so interested in "reading" an income statement so carefully...
(and if you like the typical balance sheet view, there's a link for that...
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INCLUSIVE
TOPICAL
We asked 6 design firms to rethink the ‘I Voted’ sticker. The results are so good you’ll wish you could vote twice
Those little stickers given out at poll sites have been proven to encourage us to vote. On the eve of the midterms, top designers push their potential.
Fast Company tasked half a dozen major design and branding firms—with specialities ranging from political campaigns to sci-fi movies—to reimagine the “I Voted” motif with a single goal: to get people to vote. Take a look at the results...
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NEWS
San Francisco’s $1.7 million toilet: How Civic Design Reviews make even simple public design take forever.
The toilet — just one loo in 150 square feet of space — was projected to cost $1.7 million, about the same as a single-family home in the city. And it wasn't going to be ready for use until 2025.
Thankfully that got sent back to the drawing board...
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