Google's Dreambeans app

I've just gotten off the waitlist for Dreambeans, Google's new app for "proactive, personalized collections of stories each day covering the things that matter most to you." You give it access to Google services, it processes the information, and it gives you ideas for things to do. It's not, at least in my experience, any kind of general "stories" app; mine is all suggestions, mostly of things to do and partly of things to learn and research. Each suggestion comes with a drawing, and they absolutely nailed the color palette and pencil-and-paper aesthetic of these. There are some standard AI errors: internal inconsistencies, playing cards turned the wrong way, people looking where it makes no sense for them to be looking, famous architecture depicted unfaithfully, and so on. That said, if you're interested in looking at calm, speculative, slightly whimsical pictures with elements of your life, check these out. The pictures are the discernible evidence of AI being used effectively. The…