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Bookmark Anatomy of an AI System
A cylinder sits in a room. It is impassive, smooth, simple and small. It stands 14.8cm high, with a single blue-green circular light that traces around its upper rim. It is…

February 26 2023, 8:51am | Comments
Bookmark The AI Arms Race Is On. Start Worrying | Time
To create is human. For the past 300,000 years we’ve been unique in our ability to make art, cuisine, manifestos, societies: to envision and craft something new where there was nothing…

February 19 2023, 2:51pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache AI Images — Cybernetic Forests.
Critical Topics: AI Images is an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It is meant to provide an overview of the context of AI art making tools and connects media studies, new media art, and…

February 5 2023, 7:33am | Comments
Bookmark Karagarga and the vulnerability of obscure films | National Post
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January 21 2023, 1:51pm | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Men will literally build their own GPT powered therapy bot before going to therapy.

January 4 2023, 8:52am | Comments
Twitter
Do birds have faces?

December 22 2022, 3:58am | Comments
Bookmark The expanding orbit of Seattle science fiction writer Octavia Butler
Knowing that an author who wrote unsparingly about humanity’s capacity for violence and oppression dwelled amid such picturesque Pacific Northwest ordinariness is comforting. This quiet, unremarkable place would suit a diligent…

December 12 2022, 1:54am | Comments
Bookmark Why making if-then connections might be the key to consciousness | Aeon…
As recently as just a few decades ago, the interconnected web of experiences, thoughts and emotions known as a ‘stream of consciousness’ was widely believed to belong to humans alone. A…

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? - The Atlantic
Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia. Suppose you are a professor of pedagogy, and you assign an essay on learning styles. A student hands in an essay with…

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…
A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark ChatGPT Will End High-School English - The Atlantic
I’ve been teaching English for 12 years, and I’m astounded by what ChatGPT can produce. Teenagers have always found ways around doing the hard work of actual learning.

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark AI art is only good for hollow, hotel lobby pieces - New…
An AI-generated image. Illustration by MoiraM/Alamy How much would you be willing to pay an artist for a portrait? £500? £200? How about $7.99 for 50? Over the last few days…

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark The People Cheering for Humanity’s End - The Atlantic
With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel Foucault heralded a new way of thinking that would transform the humanities and social sciences.

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Decolonising the Digital| Technology as Cultural Practice
Decolonising the Digital: Technology as Cultural Practice is a collection of critical essays, showcases, and interviews by Australian experimental artists, and diverse digital media theorists.

December 12 2022, 1:35am | Comments
Twitter
Please stop making 'AI' portraits. Thanks

December 8 2022, 11:49am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Creative and/or weird uses and abuses of Twitch streaming I am interested in innovative, creative uses and/or abuses of the Twitch streaming platform. Streamers who have used the platform as a creative medium, regardless of its (main) intention as a place for game streaming. Art and performance are what come to mind,…

November 17 2022, 7:11am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

October 17 2022, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey
Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will. Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016.

October 1 2022, 5:51am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: In Urbit's orbit People kept talking about a "vibe shift," but what had shifted was that all people seemed to talk about were vibes... the vibe was ambient grift, with an undercurrent of paranoia.

September 25 2022, 5:52pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the…
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

September 22 2022, 11:33pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

September 14 2022, 10:33pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: A Different Aftermath I made another weird little comic thing, hopeful and a little bittersweet, about conservation after the apocalypse. A topic near and dear to my heart, Lord knows.Your favourite and mine Wombat/Kingfisher Ursula Vernon has released a short comic about the post-apocalypse on Twitter,…

September 10 2022, 2:47pm | Comments
Bookmark How Do You Spot a Deepfake? It Might Not Matter
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…

September 6 2022, 7:51am | Comments
Bookmark Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies - Big…
Several facilities in the U.S. and abroad maintain morbid warehouse morgues full of frozen human heads and bodies, waiting for the future. They are part of a story that is ghoulish,…

August 28 2022, 3:51pm | Comments
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August 14 2022, 2:24pm | Comments
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August 3 2022, 10:00am | Comments
Bookmark Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought | Fossils…
The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the same time as their east African…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet - The Atlantic
Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can’t imagine having read in any other place, or at any…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic
When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs
Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net
I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark The Horror of the World | Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments

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