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Bookmark The AI Arms Race Is On. Start Worrying | Time
To create is human. For the past 300,000 years we’ve been unique in our ability to make art, cuisine, manifestos, societies: to envision and craft something new where there was nothing…

February 19 2023, 2:51pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache AI Images — Cybernetic Forests.
Critical Topics: AI Images is an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It is meant to provide an overview of the context of AI art making tools and connects media studies, new media art, and…

February 5 2023, 7:33am | Comments
Bookmark 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…

December 12 2022, 1:54am | Comments
Bookmark AI art is only good for hollow, hotel lobby pieces - New…
An AI-generated image. Illustration by MoiraM/Alamy How much would you be willing to pay an artist for a portrait? £500? £200? How about $7.99 for 50? Over the last few days…

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Decolonising the Digital| Technology as Cultural Practice
Decolonising the Digital: Technology as Cultural Practice is a collection of critical essays, showcases, and interviews by Australian experimental artists, and diverse digital media theorists.

December 12 2022, 1:35am | Comments
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
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
Bookmark Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought | Fossils…
The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the same time as their east African…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net
I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark The Horror of the World | Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Piracy Index | Piracy
This website is a collection of the best digital piracy resources. This will help you get started on your pirate voyage. What happened to the GitHub repo?

July 3 2022, 11:33pm | Comments
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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
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 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 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 Hooray! The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Become a Thriving Ecosystem, Scientists…
As elite distance swimmer Ben Lecomte approached the edge of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, he started finding more and more of something unexpected — a lot of life.

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 Vibe Shift Is Coming. Will Any of Us Survive It?
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June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
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They heard your arteries turning into a demonic horse corpse

May 31 2022, 3:11am | Comments
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The ants in my apartment are my friends now

May 24 2022, 9:10am | 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
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the weirdest part of the culture war is that both sides feel like they’re losing

May 2 2022, 8:27pm | Comments
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I need to get it into my stupid little head that the artworld is not for artists

April 28 2022, 8:21am | Comments
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April 22 2022, 6:07am | Comments
Bookmark Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall - Nautilus | Science Connected
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…

April 13 2022, 6:51pm | Comments
Bookmark DALL-E 2, the future of AI research, and OpenAI’s business model –…
This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. Artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI made headlines again, this time with DALL-E 2, a machine learning model that can generate…

April 12 2022, 6:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Rise of the machines: new book shows how revolutionary AlphaZero is |…
The eye-catching victory of AlphaZero, the artificial-intelligence program that taught itself to play chess, over the No 1 computer engine Stockfish, has evoked comparisons with human legends.

April 11 2022, 12:51am | Comments

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