MachineMachine /stream - tagged with stream https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Julian Stallabrass, Memories of the Present, NLR 148, July–August 2024]]> https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii148/articles/julian-stallabrass-memories-of-the-present

Emulations of photography generated by artificial intelligence are beginning to look so convincing that they can no longer be distinguished from images made by a film camera.

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Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:47:59 -0700 https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii148/articles/julian-stallabrass-memories-of-the-present
<![CDATA[Why You May Never See the Documentary on Prince by Ezra Edelman - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/magazine/prince-netflix-ezra-edelman-documentary.html

Dig, if you will, a small slice of Ezra Edelman’s nine-hour documentary about Prince — a cursed masterpiece that the public may never be allowed to see.

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Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:47:28 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/magazine/prince-netflix-ezra-edelman-documentary.html
<![CDATA[PrintFriendly.com: Print & PDF]]> https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/Bjmpax

The Silicon Valley New Right and the Neo-reactionary quest to “disrupt” democracy.

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Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:47:27 -0700 https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/Bjmpax
<![CDATA[Unreal]]> https://www.instituteofunreality.com/dispatches/the-dark-enlightenment-comes-to-washington

The Silicon Valley New Right and the Neo-reactionary quest to “disrupt” democracy.

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Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:48:25 -0700 https://www.instituteofunreality.com/dispatches/the-dark-enlightenment-comes-to-washington
<![CDATA[Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press]]> https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/

Aside from the physical heft of data centers seen from highways and the fiber optic cables crawling into homes and offices, the digital world mostly exists in our imagination. That imagination is shaped by the people selling services that rely on that infrastructure.

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Sat, 07 Sep 2024 07:12:44 -0700 https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/
<![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[The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries]]> https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/05/the-strange-and-terrifying-ideas-of-neoreactionaries

Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.

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Wed, 14 Aug 2024 08:27:33 -0700 https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/05/the-strange-and-terrifying-ideas-of-neoreactionaries
<![CDATA[How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking? | The New Yorker]]> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/how-should-we-think-about-our-different-styles-of-thinking

I was nineteen, maybe twenty, when I realized I was empty-headed. I was in a college English class, and we were in a sunny seminar room, discussing “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” or possibly “The Waves.

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Fri, 02 Aug 2024 13:07:38 -0700 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/how-should-we-think-about-our-different-styles-of-thinking
<![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[The Case for Speculative Fiction, According to Author N.K. Jemisin]]> https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a61662536/fiction-colonialism-jeff-vandermeer/

To my own shame, I have become a jaded reader in recent years. By this I mean that my enthusiasm and curiosity, my drive to experience new worlds, have all been damaged by a persistent disjunct between reality and the speculative fiction I most enjoy.

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Thu, 25 Jul 2024 06:02:54 -0700 https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a61662536/fiction-colonialism-jeff-vandermeer/
<![CDATA[What Was the “Paradigm Shift”? | The New Republic]]> https://newrepublic.com/article/181008/paradigm-shift-thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions-meaning

When did you encounter your first paradigm shift? Not the phenomenon itself, but the term? Perhaps at an airport bookstore, where bestselling authors of books with titles like Change Your Paradigm, Change Your Life and The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Succes

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Sat, 15 Jun 2024 18:57:54 -0700 https://newrepublic.com/article/181008/paradigm-shift-thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions-meaning
<![CDATA[How Tone of Voice Shapes Your Classroom Culture How Teacher Tone of Voice Shapes Classroom Culture | Edutopia]]> https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-tone-of-voice-shapes-your-classroom-culture/

It’s no easy task, but developing your tone of voice can build trust, reduce conflict, and set the stage for more learning in your classroom, research shows. Using your voice to manage a classroom is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:57:50 -0700 https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-tone-of-voice-shapes-your-classroom-culture/
<![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[Institute of Network Cultures | Undead Digital Labor and the General Intellect – A Conversation on AI between Tiziana Terranova and Daniël de Zeeuw]]> https://networkcultures.org/blog/2024/04/23/terranova-and-de-zeeuw/

Daniël de Zeeuw: A combination of genuine concerns and moral panics over AI (often fueled by the tech moguls themselves) has reached a new high in recent years, particularly with the introduction of ChatGPT by OpenAI.

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Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:57:44 -0700 https://networkcultures.org/blog/2024/04/23/terranova-and-de-zeeuw/
<![CDATA[Linking the g(URL) – Syllabus]]> https://syllabusproject.org/linking-the-gurl/

Girl dinner, hot girl walk, that girl, clean girl, girl boss, girl math, girl blog, hot girl summer, pick me girl, christian girl autumn, vsco girl, e-girl, good girl, bad girl, sad girl, manic pixie dream girl, i’m just a girl, girl’s girl, girl power, rat girl, feral girl, gorgeous gorgeous gi

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Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:32:59 -0700 https://syllabusproject.org/linking-the-gurl/
<![CDATA[Linking the g(URL) – Syllabus]]> https://syllabusproject.org/linking-the-gurl/

Girl dinner, hot girl walk, that girl, clean girl, girl boss, girl math, girl blog, hot girl summer, pick me girl, christian girl autumn, vsco girl, e-girl, good girl, bad girl, sad girl, manic pixie dream girl, i’m just a girl, girl’s girl, girl power, rat girl, feral girl, gorgeous gorgeous gi

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Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:32:59 -0700 https://syllabusproject.org/linking-the-gurl/
<![CDATA[Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy on how technology shapes our world | Aeon Essays]]> https://aeon.co/essays/bernard-stieglers-philosophy-on-how-technology-shapes-our-world

It has become almost impossible to separate the effects of digital technologies from our everyday experiences.

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Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:57:55 -0700 https://aeon.co/essays/bernard-stieglers-philosophy-on-how-technology-shapes-our-world
<![CDATA[The Zeitgeist of Doom - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/cultural-pessimism-america-self-fulfilling-effects/677261/

Doomsaying can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.

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Sat, 30 Mar 2024 09:57:36 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/cultural-pessimism-america-self-fulfilling-effects/677261/
<![CDATA[Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall - Nautilus]]> https://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-238440/

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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Fri, 29 Mar 2024 14:47:33 -0700 https://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-238440/