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Bookmark Obnoxious Machines - the prospects for Luddism in the era of AI
It's time to talk about the Ludding times. That's how they talked about it, those who were there, when readying themselves for an insurrection a few years later.

December 6 2023, 7:17pm | Comments
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Bookmark Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? | The New Yorker
When we talk about artificial intelligence, we rely on metaphor, as we always do when dealing with something new and unfamiliar. Metaphors are, by their nature, imperfect, but we still need…

May 10 2023, 6:52am | 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 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
Metafilter MeFi: In Urbit's orbit People kept talking about a "vibe shift," but what had shifted was that all people seemed to talk about were vibes... the vibe was ambient grift, with an undercurrent of paranoia.

September 25 2022, 5:52pm | Comments
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Bookmark Man Married to Hologram Can't Talk to Wife Due to Software Glitch
The Japanese newspaper The Mainichi first reported on the marital troubles back in January, with the New York Times providing further details this week.

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Holly Herndon on the power of machine learning and developing her “digital…
The FADER Interview is a brand new podcast series in which the world’s most exciting musicians talk with the staff of The FADER about their latest projects.

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Man Married to Hologram Can't Talk to Wife Due to Software Glitch
The Japanese newspaper The Mainichi first reported on the marital troubles back in January, with the New York Times providing further details this week.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Holly Herndon on the power of machine learning and developing her “digital…
The FADER Interview is a brand new podcast series in which the world’s most exciting musicians talk with the staff of The FADER about their latest projects.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | 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
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December 6 2021, 10:00am | Comments
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From floating ‘3D street art’ to a talking Henri Rousseau painting, Meta’s vision of the future is drained of all imagination When I was a kid, I had a book about…

November 25 2021, 1:51am | Comments
Bookmark Review: ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’ - The…
Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project I was working on. I didn’t know…

October 19 2021, 7:51am | 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
Podcast Cache Atomic Hobo: Interview with director of THREADS, Mick Jackson
I phoned Mick Jackson in LA to discuss THREADS. We also talked about A Guide To Armageddon, and The Day After, plus liquorice and all manner of nuclear horror.

May 26 2021, 9:12am | Comments
Bookmark Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power. |…
We need to acknowledge both the politics and the physical impact that AI has on the planet, says scholar Kate Crawford in her new book. At the turn of the 20th…

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark psychcentral.com
“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
Bookmark Patricia Lockwood on Her Novel, No One Is Talking About This
No One Is Talking About This is out February 16. The internet deprogrammed Patricia Lockwood. It didn’t happen all at once.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Springtime Everywhere — Real Life
“If you look at Google Earth, it’s springtime everywhere,” explains Gopal Shah, Google Earth’s product manager, in a YouTube interview. In a TED talk he boasts that Google Earth is “cloud-free,”…

October 8 2020, 11:13pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen
What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments
Podcast Cache #86 After Geoengineering w/ Holly Buck
Holly Buck joins me to discuss her new book, After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. We talked about why we may have little choice but to undertake geoengineering to avert the worst of the climate crisis. We…

May 13 2020, 5:59pm | Comments
Bookmark How big tech hijacked its sharpest, funniest critics - MIT Technology Review
Bruce Sterling wasn’t originally meant to be part of the discussion. It was March 13, 2010, in Austin, Texas, and a small group of designers were on stage at the South…

February 22 2020, 8:46am | Comments
Podcast Cache Stuart Russell on why now is the time to start thinking about…
Prof Stuart Russell wrote the book on artificial intelligence back in 1995, when the next few decades of AI were uncertain. Sitting down with Ian Sample, he talks about his latest book, which warns of a dystopian future…

October 18 2019, 5:36am | Comments
Bookmark We Need Courage, Not Hope, to Face Climate Change - The On…
As a climate scientist, I am often asked to talk about hope. Particularly in the current political climate, audiences want to be told that everything will be all right in the…

September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments
Podcast Cache Daniel Dennett interview
Daniel Dennett talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the evolution of the human brain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kv3y4

August 15 2019, 4:35am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: 434 Fridays Later ... Rebecca Black was, at age 13, the singer of Friday, the most popular (and most-mocked) video on YouTube in 2011 (Katy Perry, concerned about the internet bullying, invited Black to star in her video Last Friday Night). Today she is 22 and talks…

July 7 2019, 8:54pm | Comments
Bookmark Daddy Issues | Katherine Angel | Granta
In the awful, wearying months in which Harvey Weinstein’s ritualistic mistreatment of women was being recounted daily in the media, I found myself, like so many others, wondering and talking about…

July 2 2019, 6:44pm | Comments

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