MachineMachine /stream - search for science https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Neural Networks - Intuitively and Exhaustively Explained | Towards Data Science]]> https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-networks-intuitively-and-exhaustively-explained-0153f85c1007/

Neural Networks – Intuitively and Exhaustively Explained

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Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:10:36 -0800 https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-networks-intuitively-and-exhaustively-explained-0153f85c1007/
<![CDATA[A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler | Common Good Collective]]> https://commongood.cc/reader/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future-by-octavia-e-butler/

Octavia Butler was an author of moving and prophetic science fiction novels. She wrote an essay in 2000 for Essence Magazine that teaches us the capacity we have to understand the future, as well as our limitations.

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Sat, 11 Jan 2025 20:03:22 -0800 https://commongood.cc/reader/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future-by-octavia-e-butler/
<![CDATA[The Essay as Realm - The Georgia Review]]> https://www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-essay-as-realm/

When I was nine or ten years old, my grandmother gave me a book full of so many random, interesting facts and tidbits of science and history I sometimes think it’s the secret source of all my adult obsessions.

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Sun, 17 Nov 2024 04:27:29 -0800 https://www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-essay-as-realm/
<![CDATA[Quanta Magazine]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-a-mind-that-cant-see-mental-images-20240801/

Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. Introduction Two years ago, Sarah Shomstein realized she didn’t have a mind’s eye.

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Fri, 02 Aug 2024 08:28:03 -0700 https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-a-mind-that-cant-see-mental-images-20240801/
<![CDATA[AI trained on AI churns out gibberish garbage | Popular Science]]> https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-trained-on-ai-gibberish/

Large language models like those offered by OpenAI and Google famously require vast troves of training data to work. The latest versions of these models have already scoured much of the existing internet which has led some to fear there may not be enough new data left to train future iterations.

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Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:32:48 -0700 https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-trained-on-ai-gibberish/
<![CDATA[“There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New Suns”: Recovering Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Parables | Los Angeles Review of Books]]> https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables

 THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:55 -0800 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables
<![CDATA[M John Harrison: ‘I want to be the first human to imitate ChatGPT’ | Science fiction books | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/m-john-harrison-i-want-to-be-the-first-human-to-imitate-chatgpt-wish-i-was-here

M John Harrison, 77, is the author of seven story collections and 12 novels, including Nova Swing, which won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction in 2007, and The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, winner of the Goldsmiths prize in 2020.

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:51:17 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/m-john-harrison-i-want-to-be-the-first-human-to-imitate-chatgpt-wish-i-was-here
<![CDATA[The People Cheering for Humanity’s End - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/anthropocene-anti-humanism-transhumanism-apocalypse-predictions/672230/

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.

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Mon, 12 Dec 2022 06:53:19 -0800 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/anthropocene-anti-humanism-transhumanism-apocalypse-predictions/672230/
<![CDATA[The expanding orbit of Seattle science fiction writer Octavia Butler]]> https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/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 recluse, which Butler reportedly was. Her stories, whether set on alien planets or fictionalized Earths, rarely depicted such nurturing environments.

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Mon, 12 Dec 2022 01:54:07 -0800 https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/the-expanding-orbit-of-seattle-science-fiction-writer-octavia-butler/
<![CDATA[The People Cheering for Humanity’s End - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/anthropocene-anti-humanism-transhumanism-apocalypse-predictions/672230/

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.

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Mon, 12 Dec 2022 01:53:19 -0800 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/anthropocene-anti-humanism-transhumanism-apocalypse-predictions/672230/
<![CDATA[The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs]]> https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari

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 manner is soft spoken, even shy, in these encounters.

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Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:51:36 -0700 https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari
<![CDATA[The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs]]> https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari

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 manner is soft spoken, even shy, in these encounters.

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Fri, 22 Jul 2022 23:51:36 -0700 https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari
<![CDATA[Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/story/blake-lemoine-google-lamda-ai-bigotry/

The question of whether a computer program, or a robot, might become sentient has been debated for decades. In science fiction, we see it all the time. The artificial intelligence establishment overwhelmingly considers this prospect something that might happen in the far future, if at all.

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Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:51:09 -0700 https://www.wired.com/story/blake-lemoine-google-lamda-ai-bigotry/
<![CDATA[Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/story/blake-lemoine-google-lamda-ai-bigotry/

The question of whether a computer program, or a robot, might become sentient has been debated for decades. In science fiction, we see it all the time. The artificial intelligence establishment overwhelmingly considers this prospect something that might happen in the far future, if at all.

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Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:51:09 -0700 https://www.wired.com/story/blake-lemoine-google-lamda-ai-bigotry/
<![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology Review]]> https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049592/artificial-intelligence-colonialism/

This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full series here. My husband and I love to eat and to learn about history.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:22 -0700 https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049592/artificial-intelligence-colonialism/
<![CDATA[towardsdatascience.com]]> https://towardsdatascience.com/but-what-is-entropy-ae9b2e7c2137

This write-up re-introduces the concept of entropy from different perspectives with a focus on its importance in machine learning, probabilistic programming, and information theory.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:21 -0700 https://towardsdatascience.com/but-what-is-entropy-ae9b2e7c2137
<![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology Review]]> https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049592/artificial-intelligence-colonialism/

This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full series here. My husband and I love to eat and to learn about history.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:22 -0700 https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049592/artificial-intelligence-colonialism/
<![CDATA[towardsdatascience.com]]> https://towardsdatascience.com/but-what-is-entropy-ae9b2e7c2137

This write-up re-introduces the concept of entropy from different perspectives with a focus on its importance in machine learning, probabilistic programming, and information theory.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:21 -0700 https://towardsdatascience.com/but-what-is-entropy-ae9b2e7c2137
<![CDATA[How This A.I. Draws Anything You Describe [DALL-E 2]]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1cF9QCu1rQ

Art takes a unique combination of skill, creativity the very human element of aesthetic taste. But what if the visual arts also fall to AI. In this episode we discuss Dall-E 2, a powerful text to image generator that's set to shake things up.

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Sources:

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/dall-e-2.pdf

https://fortune.com/2022/04/06/openai-dall-e-2-photorealistic-images-from-text-descriptions/

https://www.engadget.com/open-a-is-dall-e-2-produces-fantastical-images-of-most-anything-you-can-imagine-170056814.html

https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-open-ai-dall-e-2-images-111840375.html

https://towardsdatascience.com/generating-images-from-prompts-using-clip-and-stylegan-1f9ed495ddda

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Fri, 22 Apr 2022 06:07:45 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1cF9QCu1rQ
<![CDATA[Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall - Nautilus | Science Connected]]> https://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-14467/

Let me start by saying a few things that seem obvious,” Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather” of deep learning, and one of the most celebrated scientists of our time, told a leading AI conference in Toronto in 2016.

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Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:51:55 -0700 https://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-14467/