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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.

August 20 2023, 6:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Christopher Nolan: the last Tory - New Statesman
The system was as predictable as it was brutal. It was at Haileybury, caught between the indignities of space and the pressures of time, that Christopher Nolan realised he was going…

August 19 2023, 9:52am | Comments
Bookmark Scientific discovery casts doubt on our understanding of human evolution | The…
Scientists are planning to solve one of the world’s greatest archaeological mysteries.

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Syllabus Cache Climate Justice in the Anthropocene: An Introductory Reading List -…
As the alarm bells have made it urgently clear—humanity has breached planetary boundaries—causing anthropogenic climate change and environmental disaster across the world.

August 3 2023, 11:34am | Comments
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
Syllabus Cache An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media | Knight First…
This field guide looks at social media that works on different “logics” than do Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. It features communities that have tried consciously to use different models than surveillance capitalism and includes the work of collaborators…

July 12 2023, 6:33am | 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 On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer…
In the 1980s, there was no better place than Bulgaria for virus lovers. The socialist country – plagued by hyperinflation, crumbling infrastructure, food and petrol rationing, daily blackouts and packs of…

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 The Goopification of AI - The Atlantic
Late one recent night, I enlisted GPT-4 to fix my life. I began by soliciting broad-strokes summaries of my journalistic interests and an expedited five-step protocol for breaking in raw-denim jeans…

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 Making A Solar-Powered Billion-Year Lego Clock
Ok this is kind of incredible: Brick Technology built a solar-powered Lego clock that will keep time for a billion years.

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 Man Who Turned the World on to the Genius of Fungi…
One evening last winter, Merlin Sheldrake, the mycologist and author of the best-selling book “Entangled Life,” was headlining an event in London’s Soho. The night was billed as a “salon,” and…

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 How millennials’ “epic bacon” humor became cringe - Vox
Remember when “epic bacon” was the height of comedy? Thirteen years ago, a man was sitting at the Denver airport. Bored, he turned his attention to his favorite website: “I see…

July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark The AI feedback loop: Researchers warn of 'model collapse' as AI trains…
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12 and learn how business leaders are getting ahead of the generative AI revolution. Learn More

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Bookmark AI and the threat of "human extinction": What are the tech-bros worried…
On May 30, a research organization called the Center for AI Safety released a 22-word statement signed by a number of prominent "AI scientists," including Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI;…

July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthal cave engravings identified as oldest known, more than 57,000 years old
Trine Freiesleben and Jean-Claude discussing the fingerprints and where to take OSL samples. Credit: Kristina Thomsen, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.

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 AI is the Scariest Beast Ever Created, Says Sci-Fi Writer Bruce Sterling
I've seen a lot of computer crazes in my day, but this one is sheer Mardi Gras. It's not proper to get stern and judgmental when the people are costumed and…

July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments
Bookmark ‘You reach a point where you can’t live your life’: what is…
At a recent “hoarding panel” meeting in east London, Daniel Pearson, commander for Shadwell and Whitechapel fire stations, played attenders a recording of a 999 call in which a panicked resident…

July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator, and other deliberately crap games Guardian: 'The annual CGC (Crap Games Competition) has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years' ... "What makes the CGC entertaining is the self-deprecating, sardonic British humour," explains 43-year-old Paul Collins from Reading, who first entered the CGC in 2000…

July 6 2023, 11:35pm | 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…

July 4 2023, 9:51pm | Comments
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Subreddit to discuss about ChatGPT and AI. Not affiliated with OpenAI.

June 17 2023, 7:33am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical…

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