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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 Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic
Of all the buzzy 21st-century tech phrases, “machine learning” threatens to be the most important. Programming computers is slow, but we’re nearing the point where humans give the bots parameters and…

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 For the Love of God, AI Chatbots Can’t ‘Decide’ to Do Anything
The incessant hype over AI tools like ChatGPT is inspiring lots of bad opinions from people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark Custom AI chatbots are quietly becoming the next big thing in fandom
The world of online fandom has come out against recent strides in disruptive technology: crusading against crypto, for instance, and protesting the widespread scraping of art for use in the training…

April 18 2023, 12:53am | Comments
Bookmark For the Love of God, AI Chatbots Can’t ‘Decide’ to Do Anything
The incessant hype over AI tools like ChatGPT is inspiring lots of bad opinions from people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

April 18 2023, 12:52am | Comments
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October 6 2021, 10:00am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Cyberfeminism Index
Cyberfeminism Index is INCOMPLETE and ALWAYS IN PROGRESS. Commissioned by Rhizome, it premiered with New Museum’s First Look. The printed publication Cyberfeminism Catalog will be published by Inventory Press in 2022. Please feel welcome to contribute using the…

October 22 2020, 11:59am | Comments
Bookmark Is DNA Hardware or Software? - Grow by Ginkgo
In mid-January, a group of computer scientists and biologists from the University of Vermont, Tufts, and Harvard announced that they had created an entirely new life form — xenobots, the world’s…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark Robots Help Bees Talk to Fish - IEEE Spectrum
I am honestly not sure whether fish have any concept of bees. I am equally unsure whether bees have any concept of fish. I am even more unsure whether bees and…

March 30 2019, 6:45pm | Comments
Facebook Cache list: SPAM as part of artistic practice
examples of artists using sPaM as part of their artistic practice. (thinking: jodi, constant dullaarts army of bots, horse ebooks, bestiary of Spam),,,

January 10 2019, 3:49am | Comments
Bookmark Children Are Easily Peer Pressured by Robots, Study Finds - Motherboard
The eerie possibility of robots manipulating humans crops up in science fiction tales like Ex Machina or Battlestar Galactica.

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
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June 11 2018, 10:26am | Comments
Bookmark AI Needs New Clichés – Molly Wright Steenson – Medium
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…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic
Of all the buzzy 21st-century tech phrases, “machine learning” threatens to be the most important. Programming computers is slow, but we’re nearing the point where humans give the bots parameters and…

May 13 2018, 6:17am | 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.

May 8 2018, 4:18am | Comments
Bookmark The Future is Fungal – Mask Magazine
The future as shown to us by science fictions is almost always shiny. Whether in aspirational daydreams or depictions of dystopia, the vision continues to be one of gleaming metal, stark…

August 17 2017, 6:50am | Comments
Bookmark Please Prove You’re Not a Robot - The New York Times
When science fiction writers first imagined robot invasions, the idea was that bots would become smart and powerful enough to take over the world by force, whether on their own or…

July 16 2017, 8:15am | Comments
Bookmark Robots, Rape, and Representation | SpringerLink
1.Perkowitz S (2004) Digital people: from bionic humans to androids. Joseph Henry Press, WashingtonGoogle Scholar2.Lars and the Real Girl (2007) Directed by Craig Gillespie. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, USAGoogle Scholar3.

June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark What News-Writing Bots Mean for the Future of Journalism | WIRED
This story is part of our special coverage, The News in Crisis. When Republican Steve King beat back Democratic challenger Kim Weaver in the race for Iowa’s 4th congressional district seat…

March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments
Bookmark The Age of Female Dominance, Brought to You by Robots - The…
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March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Chatbots Are The New Skeuomorphism. How Do We Find Another Way? |…
Pop culture these days is awash in tales of AI run amok, from machines that act like humans to humans in love with machines. The reason seems clear enough: We're anxious…

December 10 2016, 2:04am | Comments
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I only have hope for the robots now

July 5 2016, 3:16pm | Comments
Bookmark When Robots Are An Instrument Of Male Desire - The Establishment
By the time she started saying “Hitler was right I hate the jews,” people had started to realize that there was something wrong with Tay.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark Brave new world? Sci-fi fears 'hold back progress of AI', warns expert…
Chris Bishop fears concern over Terminator-style scenarios could deprive humanity of one of the most powerful technologies ever created The promise of artificial intelligence could be lost to humanity because people…

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark Move over, chatbots: meet the artbots | Technology | The Guardian
At Facebook’s F8 conference in Silicon Valley, David Marcus, the company’s head of messaging, proudly demonstrated its new suite of chatbots. Users can now get in a conversation with the likes…

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark How to Make a Bot That Isn't Racist | Motherboard
Really, really racist. The thing is, this was all very much preventable. I talked to some creators of Twitter bots about @TayandYou, and the consensus was that Microsoft had fallen far…

March 31 2016, 2:36am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Robots that are Shitty Reddit has a section devoted to robots that are shitty.

November 22 2015, 5:28am | Comments
Bookmark We have greater moral obligations to robots than to ...
Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse?

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark Sex robots are actually going to be good for humanity - Quartz
“Ban sex robots!” scream the tech headlines, as if they’re heralding the arrival of the latest artificial intelligence threat to humankind since autonomous killer robots.

October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark The internet is so damn unpleasant. Do we need fewer humans and…
In a welcome sign of the coming singularity, Buzzfeed just announced that it has built a sentence generator that mimics the turgid writing style of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.

January 6 2015, 5:45am | Comments
Bookmark The Day You’ll Prefer Robots to Humans | Singularity HUB
Finally, the robot revolution is arriving. There’s a Cambrian explosion in robotics, with species of all sizes, shapes and modes of mobility crawling out of the muck of the lab and…

December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments

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