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Top highlightThe New Self-HelpThe Only Way to Resist the Attention EconomyQuitting Facebook isn’t the answerWe live in an age where there are many systemic abuses that should be refused. I propose…

January 9 2025, 6:37am | Comments
Bookmark Julian Stallabrass, Memories of the Present, NLR 148, July–August 2024
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.

October 10 2024, 4:47pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: The Prince We Never Knew Ezra Edelman has made a nine-hour documentary about the complicated life and passing of the musician Prince, but disputes with the late artist's estate over his portrayal may mean it might never be seen.

September 8 2024, 12:32pm | Comments
Bookmark Institute of Network Cultures | Undead Digital Labor and the General Intellect…
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…

April 26 2024, 6:57pm | Comments
Bookmark Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall - Nautilus
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…

March 29 2024, 2:47pm | Comments
Bookmark Meta is making life even harder for Horizon Worlds creators - The…
Meta will no longer let creators using its Horizon Worlds social VR playscape make dedicated events, the company announced as part of the platform’s v109 update notes on Tuesday. It’s a…

March 22 2024, 4:27am | Comments
Bookmark Tech issues: The myth of inevitable technological progress - Vox
They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not. Imagine you’re taking an online business class — the kind where you watch video lectures and then…

March 22 2024, 3:13am | Comments
Ask Metafilter the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come…

March 14 2024, 1:38pm | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Needs New Clichés. The old ones aren’t helping, and the… |…
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…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark What It’s Like to Be a Bot — Real Life
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.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark Pedro Domingos on the Arms Race in Artificial Intelligence - DER SPIEGEL
In an interview, best-selling author and machine-learning expert Pedro Domingos discusses the global competition to take the lead in artificial intelligence, the advance of autocrats and the threats modern technology presents to…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way…
For a manifesto to succeed, it must speak to our hearts like a poem while infecting the mind with images and ideas that are dazzlingly new.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender
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…

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Bookmark A new generation of Silicon Valley designers is racing to build AI’s…
The bartender pouring free drinks glances around with nothing to do as the raucous room full of startup founders and software developers gravitates toward its preferred drug: networking.

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Bookmark Demystifying Generative Art - Editorial - Le Random — A Digital Generative…
Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) develops a framework for appreciating and analyzing generative art through an investigation of the movement’s locus of artistic intent.

July 20 2023, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark AI Will Upend Election Season - The Atlantic
Artificial intelligence is already showing up in political ads. Soon, it will completely change the nature of campaigning. Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee released a video that it claims…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein |…
Inside the many debates swirling around the rapid rollout of so-called artificial intelligence, there is a relatively obscure skirmish focused on the choice of the word “hallucinate”.

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Women Philosophers in the Twitter ‘Manosphere’ (or, that light-hearted Hume Tweet that…
This is a guest post by Daisy Dixon, Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University Content warning: This post includes discussion of abusive language, misogyny, body-shaming, and rape threats.

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark M John Harrison: ‘I want to be the first human to imitate…
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…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark ‘They’re afraid their AIs will come for them’: Doug Rushkoff on why…
It was a tough week in tech.

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by…
You have full access to this article via your institution. An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark The 'AI Apocalypse' Is Just PR - The Atlantic
Big Tech’s warnings about an AI apocalypse are distracting us from years of actual harms their products have caused. On Tuesday morning, the merchants of artificial intelligence warned once again about…

July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Today's AI is artificial artificial artificial intelligence • The Register
Workers hired via crowdsource services like Amazon Mechanical Turk are using large language models to complete their tasks – which could have negative knock-on effects on AI models in the future.…

July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Why so much of the world runs on counterfeit software - The…
LAGOS — Adegunji Kazeem vividly remembers the day his life fell apart. It was December 4, 2019. Kazeem was a final-year student at the University of Lagos and writing his undergraduate…

July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments
Bookmark Milk Is an Evolutionary Marvel - The Atlantic
No one can define it, much less fully replicate it. If an alien life form landed on Earth tomorrow and called up some of the planet’s foremost experts on lactation, it…

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