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• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

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  I sometimes think the ancients with their thinking machines had the right idea

  

  August 17 2013, 6:06am | Comments

• Bookmark The Rise of the Machines | Humanities

  Stephen Mitchell suffered from allergies. “When the trees come out, I can’t see. People stand around saying, ‘Isn’t it lovely,’ but I weep,” he told the New York Times in 1965.

  July 14 2013, 4:39pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…

  Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

  February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time..."

  “Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that read them—think about video tapes, cassettes, or floppy disks. That’s a faff—it means…

  January 30 2013, 9:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines — [To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch,…

  Sir—There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than of the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. And indeed…

  December 31 2012, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence

  This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

  December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments

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  HUMANS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES : CO-EVOLUTION, FUSION OR REPLACEMENT?

  December 14 2012, 3:02am | Comments

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  Monkeys, or polygraphs, or perspective machines

  November 12 2012, 6:28am | Comments

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  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

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  September 2 2012, 6:20am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Like Karaoke Machines in Manchester Meatspace

  August 31 2012, 10:22am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

  August 8 2012, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter

  Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

  July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence

  Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Machines and memory

  Kernel on machines and memory, with some nice examples of apps that are exploring our changing relationship with both. We are all digital archaeologists now, writes Robert Carroll. But in a…

  June 2 2012, 9:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Google Knowledge Graph

  Last Wednesday, with relatively little fanfare, Google introduced a new technology called Google Knowledge Graph. Type in “François Hollande,” and you are offered a capsule history (with links) to his children,…

  May 30 2012, 1:59am | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different

  Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

  May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

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  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

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  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Ways Machines Can Hurt You

  Wandering the LA Convention Center at WESTEC - the ultimate manufacturing show from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers… wandering the amazing tools, waterjets, 3D printers, CNCs, microCNCs, robot arms, welding devices……

  March 28 2012, 3:48am | Comments

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  Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

  January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s Only Humanist

  To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been used…

  January 4 2012, 9:16am | Comments

• Bookmark A computer that thinks like the universe

  For years, excitement about quantum computing has been growing among scientists and tech visionaries. Quantum computers, if they succeed, promise to make a whole new range of problems accessible to computers,…

  December 3 2011, 2:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Tom McCarthy: My desktop

  I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but the…

  November 27 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)

  I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to…

  October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

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  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

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  How the refrigerator got its hum

  September 26 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Three arguments against the singularity

  This is my take on the singularity: we're not going to see a hard take-off, or a slow take-off, or any kind of AI-mediated exponential outburst. What we're going to see…

  June 23 2011, 2:48am | Comments

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• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Twitter

  I sometimes think the ancients with their thinking machines had the right idea

  

  August 17 2013, 6:06am | Comments

• Bookmark The Rise of the Machines | Humanities

  Stephen Mitchell suffered from allergies. “When the trees come out, I can’t see. People stand around saying, ‘Isn’t it lovely,’ but I weep,” he told the New York Times in 1965.

  July 14 2013, 4:39pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Émilie Gervais

  April 18 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…

  Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

  February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time..."

  “Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that read them—think about video tapes, cassettes, or floppy disks. That’s a faff—it means…

  January 30 2013, 9:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines — [To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch,…

  Sir—There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than of the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. And indeed…

  December 31 2012, 6:54am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence

  This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

  December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  HUMANS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES : CO-EVOLUTION, FUSION OR REPLACEMENT?

  December 14 2012, 3:02am | Comments

• Twitter

  Monkeys, or polygraphs, or perspective machines

  November 12 2012, 6:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 2 2012, 6:20am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Like Karaoke Machines in Manchester Meatspace

  August 31 2012, 10:22am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

  August 8 2012, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter

  Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

  July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence

  Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Machines and memory

  Kernel on machines and memory, with some nice examples of apps that are exploring our changing relationship with both. We are all digital archaeologists now, writes Robert Carroll. But in a…

  June 2 2012, 9:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Google Knowledge Graph

  Last Wednesday, with relatively little fanfare, Google introduced a new technology called Google Knowledge Graph. Type in “François Hollande,” and you are offered a capsule history (with links) to his children,…

  May 30 2012, 1:59am | Comments

• Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different

  Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

  May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Next What?

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

  April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Ways Machines Can Hurt You

  Wandering the LA Convention Center at WESTEC - the ultimate manufacturing show from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers… wandering the amazing tools, waterjets, 3D printers, CNCs, microCNCs, robot arms, welding devices……

  March 28 2012, 3:48am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

  January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments

• Bookmark It’s Only Humanist

  To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been used…

  January 4 2012, 9:16am | Comments

• Bookmark A computer that thinks like the universe

  For years, excitement about quantum computing has been growing among scientists and tech visionaries. Quantum computers, if they succeed, promise to make a whole new range of problems accessible to computers,…

  December 3 2011, 2:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Tom McCarthy: My desktop

  I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but the…

  November 27 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)

  I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to…

  October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

  October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How the refrigerator got its hum

  September 26 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Three arguments against the singularity

  This is my take on the singularity: we're not going to see a hard take-off, or a slow take-off, or any kind of AI-mediated exponential outburst. What we're going to see…

  June 23 2011, 2:48am | Comments

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