A year and a half has passed since generative AI captured the public imagination. But, as writer Ian Bogost noted recently in The Atlantic, it's already feeling passe. And that, he adds, is how you know it's really taking over: What once seemed a "tool to supercharge your imagination" has become another work tool, he notes. Meanwhile, PetaPixel described how AI is ruining the web by filling it with "fake and bogus AI imagery and text." Those are two of the stories in today's roundup of AI news from around the web. (BTW, you can also now enter"Miss AI," the world's first AI beauty pageant.

  James Yang, illustrator/author of A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi (Viking 2021), will launch his new book, Charles & Ray: Designers at Play (Viking 2024) next week. Today Yang, who also has a busy career as an illustrator for national media programs, shares his thoughts on Mid-Century design, and the playful art of learning how to learn. Peggy Roalf:  Where did the idea of doing a book about the designers Charles and Ray Eames come from?&nbs...