MachineMachine /stream - tagged with perception https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[What It’s Like to Be a Bot — Real Life]]> https://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/

Bots are everywhere. From simple algorithms and aggregator bots to complex “artificially” intelligent machine-learning systems, they have become inescapable. Some are in chat programs.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:24 -0800 https://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/
<![CDATA[Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just ‘Onboarding Tools’ for Tech Conglomerates]]> https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692

It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:53:18 -0700 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692
<![CDATA[Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just ‘Onboarding Tools’ for Tech Conglomerates]]> https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692

It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:53:18 -0700 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-steyerl-on-the-ideologies-embedded-in-a-i-image-generators-2264692
<![CDATA[How Do You Spot a Deepfake? It Might Not Matter]]> https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/how-do-you-spot-a-deepfake-it-might-not-matter.html

A shadow looms over the 2020 election: Deepfakes! The newish video-editing technology (or really, host of technologies) used to seamlessly paste one person’s face on another’s body, has activated a panic among pundits and politicians.

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Tue, 06 Sep 2022 11:51:50 -0700 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/how-do-you-spot-a-deepfake-it-might-not-matter.html
<![CDATA[How Do You Spot a Deepfake? It Might Not Matter]]> https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/how-do-you-spot-a-deepfake-it-might-not-matter.html

A shadow looms over the 2020 election: Deepfakes! The newish video-editing technology (or really, host of technologies) used to seamlessly paste one person’s face on another’s body, has activated a panic among pundits and politicians.

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Tue, 06 Sep 2022 07:51:50 -0700 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/how-do-you-spot-a-deepfake-it-might-not-matter.html
<![CDATA[How to recognize fake AI-generated images | by Kyle McDonald | Medium]]> https://kcimc.medium.com/how-to-recognize-fake-ai-generated-images-4d1f6f9a2842

In 2014 machine learning researcher Ian Goodfellow introduced the idea of generative adversarial networks or GANs.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:51:51 -0700 https://kcimc.medium.com/how-to-recognize-fake-ai-generated-images-4d1f6f9a2842
<![CDATA[Why Are Octopuses So Smart? - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/why-did-octopuses-become-smart/593155/

A small shark spots its prey—a meaty, seemingly defenseless octopus. The shark ambushes, and then, in one of the most astonishing sequences in the series Blue Planet II, the octopus escapes. First, it shoves one of its arms into the predator’s vulnerable gills.

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Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:13:01 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/why-did-octopuses-become-smart/593155/
<![CDATA[Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/25/arts/durer-self-portrait.html

Who are you, and what are you doing here? You, there in the mirror, there in the lens of your phone: What do you see? In the eyes of us poor moderns, it seems self-evident that a picture can capture who you are.

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Sun, 04 Oct 2020 23:13:18 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/25/arts/durer-self-portrait.html
<![CDATA[How Do You Spot a Deepfake? It Might Not Matter]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/how-do-you-spot-a-deepfake-it-might-not-matter.html

A shadow looms over the 2020 election: Deepfakes! The newish video-editing technology (or really, host of technologies) used to seamlessly paste one person’s face on another’s body, has activated a panic among pundits and politicians.

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Mon, 01 Jul 2019 07:34:35 -0700 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/how-do-you-spot-a-deepfake-it-might-not-matter.html
<![CDATA[You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die | Technology | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/12/deep-fakes-fake-news-truth

In May, a video appeared on the internet of Donald Trump offering advice to the people of Belgium on the issue of climate change. “As you know, I had the balls to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement,” he said, looking directly into the camera, “and so should you.”

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Sun, 18 Nov 2018 08:48:08 -0800 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/12/deep-fakes-fake-news-truth
<![CDATA[Are you scared yet? Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI - BBC News]]> https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44040008

Norman is an algorithm trained to understand pictures but, like its namesake Hitchcock's Norman Bates, it does not have an optimistic view of the world. Norman sees a man being electrocuted.

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Mon, 11 Jun 2018 05:02:34 -0700 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44040008
<![CDATA[What It’s Like to Be a Bot — Real Life]]> http://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/

Bots are everywhere. From simple algorithms and aggregator bots to complex “artificially” intelligent machine-learning systems, they have become inescapable. Some are in chat programs.

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Tue, 08 May 2018 04:18:26 -0700 http://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/
<![CDATA[We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now - Motherboard]]> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjye8a/reddit-fake-porn-app-daisy-ridley

In December, Motherboard discovered a redditor named 'deepfakes' quietly enjoying his hobby: Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers’ bodies.

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Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:43:24 -0800 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjye8a/reddit-fake-porn-app-daisy-ridley
<![CDATA[Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking: Julian Jaynes’ Famous 1970s Theory]]> http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/consciousness-began-when-the-gods-stopped-speaking-rp

Julian Jaynes was living out of a couple of suitcases in a Princeton dorm in the early 1970s. He must have been an odd sight there among the undergraduates, some of whom knew him as a lecturer who taught psychology, holding forth in a deep baritone voice.

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Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:30:42 -0800 http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/consciousness-began-when-the-gods-stopped-speaking-rp
<![CDATA[It’s Ridiculous to Use Virtual Reality to Empathize With Refugees - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/virtual-reality-wont-make-you-more-empathetic/515511/

The technology isn’t the moral game-changer that some make it out to be. There is considerable enthusiasm for technologies that allow people to simulate an engagement with a physical world.

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Fri, 10 Feb 2017 05:01:50 -0800 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/virtual-reality-wont-make-you-more-empathetic/515511/
<![CDATA[Beyond humans, what other kinds of minds might be out there? | Aeon Essays]]> https://aeon.co/essays/beyond-humans-what-other-kinds-of-minds-might-be-out-there

In 1984, the philosopher Aaron Sloman invited scholars to describe ‘the space of possible minds’. Sloman’s phrase alludes to the fact that human minds, in all their variety, are not the only sorts of minds.

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Thu, 20 Oct 2016 03:05:12 -0700 https://aeon.co/essays/beyond-humans-what-other-kinds-of-minds-might-be-out-there
<![CDATA[Gif Horse — Real Life]]> http://reallifemag.com/gif-horse/

An adorable black kitten is sitting on a bookshelf, eyes fixed on an insect. It sits, paws perfectly aligned. Then, out of nowhere, it pounces — leaping off the shelf and into the air, wild and frantic.

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Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:09:42 -0700 http://reallifemag.com/gif-horse/
<![CDATA[Closing the Loop – The New Inquiry]]> http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/closing-the-loop/

“The black female’s body needs less to be rescued from the masculine “gaze” than to be sprung from a historic script surrounding her with signification while at the same time, and not paradoxically, it erases her completely.

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Wed, 02 Mar 2016 04:07:28 -0800 http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/closing-the-loop/
<![CDATA[The Next Revolution in Photography Is Coming]]> http://time.com/4003527/future-of-photography/?xid=fbshare

Stephen Wilkes

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Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:17:47 -0800 http://time.com/4003527/future-of-photography/?xid=fbshare
<![CDATA[7 Hidden Art Secrets That Were Uncovered With Technology | The Creators Project]]> http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_uk/blog/7-hidden-art-secrets-that-were-uncovered-with-technology

Paintings by the masters da Vinci, Rembrandt, Goya, and Caravaggio are often accepted as absolute works. Today, we use mobile devices to capture these images, compressing them onto tiny screens, and remixing them into snapchats, selfies or light simulated paintings.

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Sat, 21 Nov 2015 06:16:35 -0800 http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_uk/blog/7-hidden-art-secrets-that-were-uncovered-with-technology