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Bookmark Writing In An Age Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) | The Creative Penn
In this solo episode, I discuss the impact of converging technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Generation (NLG) tools like GPT-3, and more on writing, authors, and the publishing industry.

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark All the right words on climate have already been said » Nieman…
Sometime last week, an editor who semi-ghosted me on an article I wrote several months ago texted me saying she wanted to talk. I didn’t want to talk to her because…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Ancient bone carving could change the way we think about Neanderthals
The design may be simple, but a chevron pattern etched onto a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago suggests that Neanderthals had their own artistic tradition before modern humans arrived…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic
Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone. Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache The Changing Ontology of the Image | The Nordic Journal…
Traditionally we think of images as relatively individualized or delimited phenomena that, in one way or the other, appear to the human mind and apparatus of perception. Currently, however, we are witnessing an intensification of what we might…

July 4 2021, 10:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Exiting The Anthropocene and Entering The Symbiocene. | Psychoterratica
It has been proposed that humans are now living within a period of the Earth’s history appropriately named ‘The Anthropocene’ (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000).

June 22 2021, 9:55pm | Comments
Bookmark The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction…
Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present.…

May 31 2021, 1:55am | Comments
Bookmark Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter | The New Yorker
In the eleventh century, St. Anselm of Canterbury proposed an argument for the existence of God that went roughly like this: God is, by definition, the greatest being that we can…

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark NFTs might not solve the digital art authenticity problem.
When Christie’s auctioned for $69 million a “nonfungible token,” or NFT, linked to the digital collage Everydays: The First 5000 Days, many people asked WTF was an NFT? And why was a…

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says | Archaeology | The…
When Neanderthals, Denisovans and homo sapiens met one another 50,000 years ago, these archaic and modern humans not only interbred during the thousands of years in which they overlapped, but they…

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
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May 16 2021, 10:00am | Comments
Bookmark White Supremacy and Artificial Intelligence - YES! Magazine
In her new book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, Ruha Benjamin breaks down the “New Jim Code,” technology design that promises a utopian future but serves racial…

May 1 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache RESOURCE PORTAL ON ANTI-RACISM AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO ART HISTORY…
This portal contains hundreds of references arranged along subject, themes and media in eight bibliographies.

April 15 2021, 10:36pm | Comments
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“When Kurzweil first started talking about the “singularity”, a conceit he borrowed from the science-fiction writer Vernor Vinge, he was dismissed as a fantasist.

April 8 2021, 5:55am | Comments
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April 7 2021, 10:50am | Comments
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April 3 2021, 8:42am | Comments
Bookmark We’re already colonizing Mars.
Sometime in April, the Ingenuity helicopter will take to the Martian air, making it, in NASA’s words, “the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.” Or,…

April 1 2021, 4:55am | Comments
Bookmark Humans Can't Contain Superintelligent Machines | Super AI
In a new study, researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Human Development say they’ve shown that an artificial intelligence in the category known as “superintelligent” would be impossible for humans…

March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments
Bookmark The Engineer & the Artist: Negarestani vs. Land | Cybertrop(h)ic
Much has been made of the opposition between Reza Negarastani and Nick Land, between so-called neo-rationalism and libidinal materialism.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales in Unearthed 2005…
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman. To mark Black History Month once again, as well as the 25th anniversary of Democracy Now!, we turn now…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans | New…
The existence of the Denisovans was discovered just a decade ago through DNA alone. Now we're starting to uncover fossils and artefacts revealing what these early humans were like TODAY, there…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Life After the Fourth Industrial Revolution
It’s 7 AM, April 13th, 2025. Your smart clock rouses you from a dreamless sleep and you climb from bed as your house comes to life. The bathroom light turns itself…

March 30 2021, 12:55am | Comments
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March 11 2021, 8:03am | Comments
Reddit Horror Cinema submitted by /u/nice-guy-phil to r/IcebergCharts [link] [comments]

February 2 2021, 5:52am | Comments
Syllabus Cache The Digital Condition: Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age
UPDATE: Due to circumstances the Winter School will be held virtually. Please note that the programme follows the EET Eastern European Time UTC+2 timezone!

January 26 2021, 10:39am | Comments
Bookmark Dougal Dixon’s After Man, the Initial Pitch Document — Tetrapod Zoology
There can’t be many visitors here who are unaware of Dougal Dixon and his 1981 book After Man (Dixon 1981), the work which effectively started the entire Speculative Zoology (or SpecZoo)…

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Bookmark Organisms are not passive recipients of evolutionary forces | Aeon Essays
Humans are shaping the evolutionary future of life on Earth.

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Bookmark Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like - BBC Future
Their eyes met across the rugged mountain landscape of prehistoric Romania. He was a Neanderthal, and stark naked apart from a fur cape. He had good posture and pale skin, perhaps…

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Rethinking Artificial Intelligence through Feminism | CCCB LAB
Technology surrounds us and is everywhere, but how this technology is made and who really benefits from it and who does not, are still important questions to be investigated.

January 8 2021, 11:36pm | Comments
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Make art against singularity

January 2 2021, 10:03am | Comments
Reddit Have you read any scifi that you found overly disturbing? I like weird scifi, and sometimes I am in the mood for scifi that makes me uncomfortable. I don't necessarily mean horror or weird Lovecraftian fiction (not a fan) but just really dark scifi. So what are the weirdest, most unsettling scifi books…

December 23 2020, 10:31am | Comments
Bookmark Terraforming the Earth, Redesigning the World | CCCB LAB
The term terraforming refers to the transformation of the ecosystems of other planets or satellites to enable them to support Earth-like life.

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments

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