MachineMachine /stream - search for story https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![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[Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories – VICE]]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1/

Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. This story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE to subscribe.

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Wed, 14 Aug 2024 08:27:47 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1/
<![CDATA[I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold | TechRadar]]> https://www.techradar.com/computing/i-watched-nvidias-computex-2024-keynote-and-it-made-my-blood-run-cold

I don't think Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a bad guy, or that he has nefarious plans for Nvidia, but the most consequential villains in history are rarely evil. They just go down a terribly wrong path, and end up leaving totally forseeable, but ultimately inevitable ruin in their wake.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:57:49 -0700 https://www.techradar.com/computing/i-watched-nvidias-computex-2024-keynote-and-it-made-my-blood-run-cold
<![CDATA[ChatGPT: 30 Year History | How AI Learned to Talk]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg

This video explores the journey of AI language models, from their modest beginnings through the development of OpenAI's GPT models. Our journey takes us through the key moments in generative neural network research involved in next word prediction. We delve into the early experiments with tiny language models in the 1980s, highlighting significant contributions by researchers like Jordan, who introduced Recurrent Neural Networks, and Elman, whose work on learning word boundaries revolutionized our understanding of language processing. It leaves us with a question: what is thought? Is simulated thought, thought? Featuring Noam Chomsky Douglas Hofstadter Michael I. Jordan Jeffrey Elman Geoffrey Hinton Ilya Sutskever Andrej Karpathy Yann LeCun and more. (Sam altman)

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00:00 - Introduction 00:32 - hofstader's thoughts on chatGPT 01:00 - recap of supervised learning 01:55 - first paper on sequential learning 02:55 - first use of state units (RNN) 04:33 - first observation of word boundary detection 05:30 - first observation of word clustering 07:16 - first "large" language model Hinton/Sutskever 10:10 - sentiment neuron (Ilya | OpenAI) 12:30 - transformer explaination 15:50 - GPT-1 17:00 - GPT-2 17:55 - GPT-3 18:20 - In-context learning 19:40 - ChatGPT 21:10 - tool use 23:25 - philosophical question: what is thought?

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Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:53:24 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg
<![CDATA[ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender]]> https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Nobody likes an I-told-you-so.

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Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:37:34 -0800 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
<![CDATA[The Marvelization of Cinema]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmxfVWDgMM

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About this video essay: We've all felt it: the movies have changed. But how so exactly, and why? And what can be done about it? In this extensive critique, I try to capture the decline of modern cinema in one unifying theory.

00:00 The Marvelization of Cinema 01:52 What is Storytelling Entropy? 06:26 Hollow Franchises 11:15 Meta-References to Nowhere 17:40 Corporate Passion 25:23 Breaking the Cycle 33:08 Meaningful Engagement

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Media included: 12 Angry Men; 2001 A Space Odyssey; A Good Day to Die Hard; A Hidden Life; Aftersun; Ahsoka; Alien; Alien vs. Predator; Aliens; Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania; Asteroid City; Avengers Age of Ultron; Avengers Endgame; Avengers Infinity War; Babylon; Barbie; Batman Begins; Batman v Superman; Blade Runner 2049; Captain America Civil War; Captain America The First Avenger; Captain America The Winter Soldier; Citadel; Deadpool; Decision to Leave; Die Hard; Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; Dune; Dungeons and Dragons; Eternals; Foundation; Fast X; Free Guy; Game of Thrones; Ghostbusters Afterlife; Ghosted; Gladiator; Godzilla; Godzilla vs Kong; Goodfellas; Inception; Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Iron Man 3; Iron Man; John Wick Chapter 3 & 4; Jurassic Park; Jurassic World; Jurassic World Dominion; Lawrence of Arabia; Loki; Mission Impossible 1, 2, Fallout, Rogue Nation & Dead Reckoning; Moon Knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi; Ocean's Eleven; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; Past Lives; Predator 1 & 2; Red Notice; Secret Invasion; Seven Samurai; Shang-Chi; She-Hulk; Spiderman 1 & 2; Spider-Man No Way Home; Star Wars A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, The Revenge of the Sith, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi & the Rise of Skywalker; Synecdoche New York; Terminator 1, 2 & Dark Fate; The Dark Knight, The Amazing Spider-Man 2; The Avengers; The Fabelmans; The Falcon and the Winter Soldier; The Flash; The Godfather 1 & 2; The Gray Man; The Hobbit Trilogy; The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; The Rings of Power; The Matrix 1 & 4; The Mummy; The Prestige; The Thing; The Witcher; Thor Love and Thunder; Thor Ragnarok; Thor The Dark World; Top Gun; Top Gun Maverick; Transformers Rise of the Beasts; Uncharted

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Tue, 07 Nov 2023 07:35:31 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmxfVWDgMM
<![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 Satire Hidden in ALIEN's Production Design | Making Alien]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWHPbVSMms

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In this video, we take an in-depth look at the dark satire injected by Ron Cobb into the production design of Alien’s Nostromo spaceship that highlights the fact that the true monster of Alien is not the creature but the Weyland-Yutani corporation itself.


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Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:00:35 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWHPbVSMms
<![CDATA[How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history | The Economist]]> https://www.economist.com/essay/2023/04/20/how-ai-could-change-computing-culture-and-the-course-of-history

Among the more sombre gifts brought by the Enlightenment was the realisation that humans might one day become extinct.

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Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:51:25 -0700 https://www.economist.com/essay/2023/04/20/how-ai-could-change-computing-culture-and-the-course-of-history
<![CDATA[AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey]]> https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/ai-in-storytelling

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.

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Sat, 01 Oct 2022 09:51:38 -0700 https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/ai-in-storytelling
<![CDATA[AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey]]> https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/ai-in-storytelling

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.

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Sat, 01 Oct 2022 05:51:38 -0700 https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/ai-in-storytelling
<![CDATA[Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies - Big Think]]> https://bigthink.com/the-future/cryonics-horror-stories/#Echobox=1659611382

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, darkly humorous, and yet endearingly sincere.

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Sun, 28 Aug 2022 19:51:26 -0700 https://bigthink.com/the-future/cryonics-horror-stories/#Echobox=1659611382
<![CDATA[Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies - Big Think]]> https://bigthink.com/the-future/cryonics-horror-stories/#Echobox=1659611382

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, darkly humorous, and yet endearingly sincere.

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Sun, 28 Aug 2022 15:51:26 -0700 https://bigthink.com/the-future/cryonics-horror-stories/#Echobox=1659611382
<![CDATA[The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/spam-twitter-account-horse-ebooks-human-internet-relationship/661409/

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 other time in history.

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Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:51:39 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/spam-twitter-account-horse-ebooks-human-internet-relationship/661409/
<![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 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/spam-twitter-account-horse-ebooks-human-internet-relationship/661409/

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 other time in history.

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Fri, 22 Jul 2022 23:51:39 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/spam-twitter-account-horse-ebooks-human-internet-relationship/661409/
<![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[Hopepunk, grimdark, noblebright: Gautam Bhatia on new genres of storytelling - Hindustan Times]]> https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-culture/hopepunk-grimdark-noblebright-gautam-bhatia-on-new-genres-of-storytelling-101649406798897.html

In a 2014 interview with reviews blog The Book Smugglers, the fantasy writer Katherine Addison observed that the main character of her acclaimed novel The Goblin Emperor – Maia Drazhar – was someone “whose ethical compass could find true north and stick to it” and was placed in a narrative i

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:57 -0700 https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-culture/hopepunk-grimdark-noblebright-gautam-bhatia-on-new-genres-of-storytelling-101649406798897.html
<![CDATA[Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories]]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1

Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. This story appears in VICE Magazine's Truth and Lies Issue. Click HERE to subscribe.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:50 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1
<![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/