MachineMachine /stream - search for bots https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[A.I. Needs New Clichés. The old ones aren’t helping, and the… | by Molly Wright Steenson | Medium]]> https://maximolly.medium.com/ai-needs-new-clichés-ed0d6adb8cbb

If you plug “AI” or “artificial intelligence” into Google Image Search, here’s what you get. Electric brains firing blue with neurons. Translucent robots and robot heads, code dribbling down their foreheads and noses.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:40 -0800 https://maximolly.medium.com/ai-needs-new-clichés-ed0d6adb8cbb
<![CDATA[Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic]]> https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html

Of all the buzzy 21st-century tech phrases, “machine learning” threatens to be the most important. Programming computers is slow, but we’re nearing the point where humans give the bots parameters and let them teach themselves.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:29 -0800 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html
<![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[For the Love of God, AI Chatbots Can’t ‘Decide’ to Do Anything]]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3zbp/for-the-love-of-god-ai-chatbots-cant-decide-to-do-anything

The incessant hype over AI tools like ChatGPT is inspiring lots of bad opinions from people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:52:36 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3zbp/for-the-love-of-god-ai-chatbots-cant-decide-to-do-anything
<![CDATA[Custom AI chatbots are quietly becoming the next big thing in fandom]]> https://www.theverge.com/23627402/character-ai-fandom-chat-bots-fanfiction-role-playing

The world of online fandom has come out against recent strides in disruptive technology: crusading against crypto, for instance, and protesting the widespread scraping of art for use in the training of visual AI programs.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:53:19 -0700 https://www.theverge.com/23627402/character-ai-fandom-chat-bots-fanfiction-role-playing
<![CDATA[For the Love of God, AI Chatbots Can’t ‘Decide’ to Do Anything]]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3zbp/for-the-love-of-god-ai-chatbots-cant-decide-to-do-anything

The incessant hype over AI tools like ChatGPT is inspiring lots of bad opinions from people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:52:36 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3zbp/for-the-love-of-god-ai-chatbots-cant-decide-to-do-anything
<![CDATA[The First Horror Movie Written Entirely By Bots]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZzbxNoMjGM

We worked with Keaton Patti to make a bot watch over 400,000 hours of horror movies and then write its own horror movie. This is what it came up with.

NetflixByBots #KeatonPatti #Horror

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Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:00:00 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZzbxNoMjGM
<![CDATA[Cyberfeminism Index]]> https://cyberfeminismindex.com/

Cyberfeminism Index is INCOMPLETE and ALWAYS IN PROGRESS. Commissioned by Rhizome, it premiered with New Museum’s First Look. The printed publication Cyberfeminism Catalog will be published by Inventory Press in 2022. Please feel welcome to contribute using the “submit” button at the bottom of all pages.

cyberfeminism?

Cyberfeminism cannot be reduced to women and technology. Nor is it about the diffusion of feminism through technology. Combining cyber and feminism was meant as an oxymoron or provocation, a critique of the cyberbabes and fembots that stocked the sci-fi landscapes of the 1980s. The term is self-reflexive: technology is not only the subject of cyberfeminism, but its means of transmission. It’s all about feedback.

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Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:59:18 -0700 https://cyberfeminismindex.com/
<![CDATA[Is DNA Hardware or Software? - Grow by Ginkgo]]> https://www.growbyginkgo.com/2020/06/29/is-dna-hardware-or-software/

In mid-January, a group of computer scientists and biologists from the University of Vermont, Tufts, and Harvard announced that they had created an entirely new life form — xenobots, the world’s first living robots.

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Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:13:20 -0700 https://www.growbyginkgo.com/2020/06/29/is-dna-hardware-or-software/
<![CDATA[Robots Help Bees Talk to Fish - IEEE Spectrum]]> https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robots-help-bees-talk-to-fish

I am honestly not sure whether fish have any concept of bees. I am equally unsure whether bees have any concept of fish. I am even more unsure whether bees and fish could be friends, if they knew that the other existed. But thanks to robots, it turns out that the answer is definitely yes.

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Sat, 30 Mar 2019 18:45:15 -0700 https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robots-help-bees-talk-to-fish
<![CDATA[list: SPAM as part of artistic practice]]> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156955924121639&set=a.211243686638&type=1&theater

examples of artists using sPaM as part of their artistic practice. (thinking: jodi, constant dullaarts army of bots, horse ebooks, bestiary of Spam),,,

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Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:49:15 -0800 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156955924121639&set=a.211243686638&type=1&theater
<![CDATA[Children Are Easily Peer Pressured by Robots, Study Finds - Motherboard]]> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3qqep/children-are-easily-peer-pressured-by-robots-study-finds

The eerie possibility of robots manipulating humans crops up in science fiction tales like Ex Machina or Battlestar Galactica.

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Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:33:42 -0700 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3qqep/children-are-easily-peer-pressured-by-robots-study-finds
<![CDATA[THREADS: REDUX]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNkjqBmOmeA

Filmed in Sheffield on the 6th and 7th and premiered on the 9th June 2018 at The Leadmill, Sheffield. A Live Cinema UK commission for Sheffield Doc|Fest 2018. More at https://www.thereduxproject.com/threads

STARRING Isabelle France as RUTH Harry Browse as JIMMY Ashley Gregory as BOB and Saffron Kershaw-Mee Nicole Henson Lucia Allen Shaun Stone-Riley Steve Shields Max Fyldes Steve Moseley Lucie Oates Oscar Aujla Jack Starr Barry McKeown Richard Humph Ruth Humph Spleenydotson Mark Perkins Oliver Ibbotson Alex Mckelvy Dan Kahn David Chang Sarah Calcutt Chris Boyd Sarah Lenthall Abbie Laycock Jane Lappin David Lappin Diane Chaplin Declan Bracewell Mark Flude Abbie Chin Wayne Hoyle Dave McClelland Adris Asghar Bird Lovegod Omar Aysha Tony Griffin Pauline Zelaieta Lisa Bushby Sergiu Radu Mona Lisa Charlie Marbles Eleanor Spivey Tom Bloomfield Luci Briginshaw Colm McAuliffe Kate Linderholm Magid Magid Elizabeth McIntyre

PROTEST MATERIALS BY Bannabel

THING DOER Taylor Iscariot

SECOND UNIT CAMERA PROVIDED BY Jambareeqi

WITH THANKS TO Live Cinema UK Sheffield Doc|Fest BBC Sheffield The Nottingham House Sheffield City Hall The Moor Graves Gallery Surriya Falconer Chris Harvey Graham Walker Nia Childs Dan Hayes Paulette Edwards Kate Linderholm Jude Rogers Philippa Barr Danny Hardaker Mick Jackson and the Lord Mayor of Sheffield

WARDROBE PROVIDED BY Mooch Vintage

COMING SOON Get Carter & Atonement

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Lisa Brook Kate Wellham

PRODUCED AND REDUXED BY Richard DeDomenici

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Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:26:25 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNkjqBmOmeA
<![CDATA[AI Needs New Clichés – Molly Wright Steenson – Medium]]> https://medium.com/@maximolly/ai-needs-new-clichés-ed0d6adb8cbb

If you plug “AI” or “artificial intelligence” into Google Image Search, here’s what you get. Electric brains firing blue with neurons. Translucent robots and robot heads, code dribbling down their foreheads and noses.

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Mon, 11 Jun 2018 05:02:31 -0700 https://medium.com/@maximolly/ai-needs-new-clichés-ed0d6adb8cbb
<![CDATA[Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic]]> http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html

Of all the buzzy 21st-century tech phrases, “machine learning” threatens to be the most important. Programming computers is slow, but we’re nearing the point where humans give the bots parameters and let them teach themselves.

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Sun, 13 May 2018 06:17:19 -0700 http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html
<![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[The Future is Fungal – Mask Magazine]]> http://maskmagazine.com/the-masculine-issue/struggle/the-future-is-fungal

The future as shown to us by science fictions is almost always shiny. Whether in aspirational daydreams or depictions of dystopia, the vision continues to be one of gleaming metal, stark white interiors, and of course many more robots.

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Thu, 17 Aug 2017 06:50:20 -0700 http://maskmagazine.com/the-masculine-issue/struggle/the-future-is-fungal
<![CDATA[Please Prove You’re Not a Robot - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/opinion/sunday/please-prove-youre-not-a-robot.html

When science fiction writers first imagined robot invasions, the idea was that bots would become smart and powerful enough to take over the world by force, whether on their own or as directed by some evildoer. In reality, something only slightly less scary is happening.

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Sun, 16 Jul 2017 08:15:50 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/opinion/sunday/please-prove-youre-not-a-robot.html
<![CDATA[Robots, Rape, and Representation | SpringerLink]]> https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12369-017-0413-z

1.Perkowitz S (2004) Digital people: from bionic humans to androids. Joseph Henry Press, WashingtonGoogle Scholar2.Lars and the Real Girl (2007) Directed by Craig Gillespie. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, USAGoogle Scholar3.

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Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:01:43 -0700 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12369-017-0413-z
<![CDATA[What News-Writing Bots Mean for the Future of Journalism | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/2017/02/robots-wrote-this-story/

This story is part of our special coverage, The News in Crisis. When Republican Steve King beat back Democratic challenger Kim Weaver in the race for Iowa’s 4th congressional district seat in November, The Washington Post snapped into action, covering both the win and the wider electoral trend.

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Sat, 11 Mar 2017 17:21:27 -0800 https://www.wired.com/2017/02/robots-wrote-this-story/