Daniel Rourke /stream

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
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 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
YouTube

August 14 2022, 2:24pm | Comments
YouTube

August 3 2022, 10:00am | 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 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 How independent writers are turning to AI
On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
YouTube

June 27 2022, 2:33am | Comments
Bookmark Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED
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…

June 20 2022, 3:51pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Too many cows Boundary violation in Minecraft "Today my 7 year-old came into the room crying. I asked him what happened and he said that his 5 year-old brother put 80 cows in his house in Minecraft while he was offline and that it was "entirely…

June 15 2022, 5:15am | Comments
Bookmark Notes on a genre
The thing to know about the AI language models, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and its cousins, is that they are fundamentally bullshitters. The bullshit has gotten better and better, but at the core … well,…

June 10 2022, 4:51pm | Comments
Bookmark AI can create a computer inside itself to run another AI or…
An artificial intelligence trained to mimic the logic circuits of an ordinary computer can run code within itself, potentially speeding up certain calculations An artificial intelligence that mimics the operation of…

June 3 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark Hopepunk, grimdark, noblebright: Gautam Bhatia on new genres of storytelling - Hindustan…
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 –…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Instagram and Snapchat Are Ruining Our Memories
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…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Puzzling Reason AI May Never Compete With Human Consciousness - CNET
Constructing humanlike artificial intelligence often starts with deconstructing humans. Take fingerprints: When holding soapy dishes, we intuitively adjust our grip based on our fingerprint structure.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Atheism is not as rare or as rational as you think -…
You are a member of a very peculiar species. Of all our quirks, the human religious impulse may be our most distinctive one. We build skyscrapers? Big deal, bowerbirds construct ornate…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology…
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…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Man Married to Hologram Can't Talk to Wife Due to Software Glitch
The Japanese newspaper The Mainichi first reported on the marital troubles back in January, with the New York Times providing further details this week.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark How to Change Your Mind About COVID-19 - The Atlantic
In the spring of 2020, as Americans continued to proclaim their excitement for basketball games and parades, an ER doctor named Dylan Smith watched in dismay. Was everyone else ignoring reality?…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…
Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark A Theory of Vibe — Glass Bead
Across the foliated space of the twenty-seven equivalents, Faustroll conjured up into the third dimension: From Baudelaire, E. A. Poe’s Silence, taking care to retranslate Baudelaire’s translation into Greek.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark No music on Mars: Sound is different on the red planet -…
Your mind’s eye can already paint a picture of what Mars looks like. You will probably conjure up the image of a barren landscape of scattered boulders and pebbles under a…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries ❧ Current Affairs
Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.

June 3 2022, 1:51am | Comments
Bookmark How to recognize fake AI-generated images | by Kyle McDonald | Medium
In 2014 machine learning researcher Ian Goodfellow introduced the idea of generative adversarial networks or GANs.

June 3 2022, 1:51am | Comments
Bookmark AI bias: Why fair artificial intelligence is so hard to make -…
There are competing notions of fairness — and sometimes they’re totally incompatible with each other. Let’s play a little game. Imagine that you’re a computer scientist.

May 5 2022, 4:51pm | Comments
YouTube

April 22 2022, 6:07am | Comments

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...58 ›

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...58 ›

navigation

portfolio detail

portfolio (ext)

art/residencies

major projects

online detritus

other work

search

connections / tags

elsewhere