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• Bookmark AI trained on AI churns out gibberish garbage | Popular Science

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  Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) develops a framework for appreciating and analyzing generative art through an investigation of the movement’s locus of artistic intent.

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• 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…

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  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.…

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• 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…

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• Bookmark ChatGPT is about to dump more work on everyone - The Atlantic

  Artificial intelligence could spare you some effort. Even if it does, it will create a lot more work in the process.

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  In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans desire…

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• Bookmark ChatGPT is about to dump more work on everyone - The Atlantic

  Artificial intelligence could spare you some effort. Even if it does, it will create a lot more work in the process.

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• Bookmark The age of average — Alex Murrell

  In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans desire…

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  I’ve been teaching English for 12 years, and I’m astounded by what ChatGPT can produce. Teenagers have always found ways around doing the hard work of actual learning.

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  I’ve been teaching English for 12 years, and I’m astounded by what ChatGPT can produce. Teenagers have always found ways around doing the hard work of actual learning.

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  Recently I began realizing that my perception of the world is beginning to change in a peculiar way. There are no longer distinctions between more and less important themes or work;…

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  How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite? Recently, an Australian-Palestinian friend of mine was invited to…

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  Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. Introduction Two years ago, Sarah Shomstein…

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• Bookmark AI trained on AI churns out gibberish garbage | Popular Science

  Large language models like those offered by OpenAI and Google famously require vast troves of training data to work. The latest versions of these models have already scoured much of the…

  July 30 2024, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Institute of Network Cultures | Undead Digital Labor and the General Intellect…

  Daniël de Zeeuw: A combination of genuine concerns and moral panics over AI (often fueled by the tech moguls themselves) has reached a new high in recent years, particularly with the…

  April 26 2024, 6:57pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Virtual Reality Sex Worker Was Denied Entry to the U.S. for…

  Hex makes a living in virtual reality. She’s an online sex worker, hosting shows and posting photos and videos from social VR platform VRChat to her Fansly account, a subscription site…

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• Bookmark Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. | The New Yorker

  On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion…

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  November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments

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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

• YouTube

  August 17 2023, 6:00am | Comments

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  August 13 2023, 4:08pm | 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 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

• 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 ChatGPT is about to dump more work on everyone - The Atlantic

  Artificial intelligence could spare you some effort. Even if it does, it will create a lot more work in the process.

  April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The age of average — Alex Murrell

  In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans desire…

  April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments

• Bookmark ChatGPT is about to dump more work on everyone - The Atlantic

  Artificial intelligence could spare you some effort. Even if it does, it will create a lot more work in the process.

  April 18 2023, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The age of average — Alex Murrell

  In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans desire…

  April 18 2023, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark ChatGPT Will End High-School English - The Atlantic

  I’ve been teaching English for 12 years, and I’m astounded by what ChatGPT can produce. Teenagers have always found ways around doing the hard work of actual learning.

  December 12 2022, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark ChatGPT Will End High-School English - The Atlantic

  I’ve been teaching English for 12 years, and I’m astounded by what ChatGPT can produce. Teenagers have always found ways around doing the hard work of actual learning.

  December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

  October 17 2022, 9:51am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the…

  A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

  September 23 2022, 3:33am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the…

  A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

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• Syllabus Cache A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World

  A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

  September 14 2022, 10:33pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Personal Entropy - Journal #126 April 2022 - e-flux

  Recently I began realizing that my perception of the world is beginning to change in a peculiar way. There are no longer distinctions between more and less important themes or work;…

  June 3 2022, 5:53am | Comments

• Bookmark AI can create a computer inside itself to run another AI or…

  An artificial intelligence trained to mimic the logic circuits of an ordinary computer can run code within itself, potentially speeding up certain calculations An artificial intelligence that mimics the operation of…

  June 3 2022, 5:53am | Comments

• Bookmark Personal Entropy - Journal #126 April 2022 - e-flux

  Recently I began realizing that my perception of the world is beginning to change in a peculiar way. There are no longer distinctions between more and less important themes or work;…

  June 3 2022, 1:53am | Comments

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