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  1. The Rise of AI Companions #oldaily downes.ca/post/79737 What's more interesting than the percentages outline throughout this survey (26 page PDF) are the descriptions of what it feels like to people who actually have AI companions.

  2. The Disappearing Bottom Rung in L&D #oldaily downes.ca/post/79736 This is an interesting take. Philippa Hardman explains the 'disappearance' of entry-level roles in learning and development as a consequence of the way AI is replacing human work at those lower levels. Nothing new there.

  3. Seeing Learning Differently: What Generative AI Reveals About Human Capability Development #oldaily downes.ca/post/79735

  4. Biocomputation: Moving Beyond Turing with Living Cellular Computers #oldaily downes.ca/post/79734 This article describes work developing biology-based computation, or 'biocomputation'. "Using synthetic biology, it is now possible to modify the specific nature of each of these steps in biological systems (for example, edit the DNA of living cells to sense new inputs) allowing for the programming of information processing devices with living matter.".

  5. 12 Literary Opinions That Would Get Me Kicked Out of an MFA Program #oldaily downes.ca/post/79733 I don't make any claim to have written literature, but if I think of OLDaily as a single work (and, in many ways, I do) then I have followed most if not all of these opinions. I don't mind writing in long sentences, I focus on telling as much as showing, and digressions are the order of the day.