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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 Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net
I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net
I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Exiting The Anthropocene and Entering The Symbiocene. | Psychoterratica
It has been proposed that humans are now living within a period of the Earth’s history appropriately named ‘The Anthropocene’ (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000).

June 22 2021, 9:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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May 1 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark Viruses are not just threats, but actors in evolution’s long story |…
Wisdom is the ability to discern inner qualities and subtle relationships, then translate them into what others recognise as good judgment. If it comes to us at all, wisdom is the…

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark Early humans domesticated themselves, new genetic evidence suggests | Science | AAAS
When humans started to tame dogs, cats, sheep, and cattle, they may have continued a tradition that started with a completely different animal: us.

December 4 2019, 4:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Press can compare parrots to psychopaths, regulator rules | Media | The…
British newspapers can legitimately mock parrots and compare them to psychopaths, the press regulator has ruled, after an unsuccessful complaint that the Daily Star misrepresented the emotions of a pet bird.

August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments
Bookmark The Downward Spiral: The Chimera Manifesto | Spike Art Magazine
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August 21 2019, 4:08am | Comments
Bookmark Too Human — Real Life
As I was being wheeled out of the post-anesthesia care unit at Mount Sinai, three incisions across my abdomen freshly glued shut and fentanyl warm in my veins, a nurse bustled…

May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments
Bookmark Ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform :: Why is everybody being…
A pamphlet for the exhibition Sheffield 08: Yes No and Other Options How can we address the current changes in our societies and lives? Some say that we have come to…

April 17 2019, 7:21am | 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
Bookmark There be monsters: from cabinets of curiosity to demons within | Aeon…
In 2003, a team of scientists in China managed to create embryos containing a mix of rabbit and human DNA. Most of the biological matter was human, while the rabbit DNA…

November 7 2018, 7:08am | Comments
Bookmark BBC - Future - The world's most prolific writer is a Chinese…
“Inflatable duck baby pool with canopy.” “Hot selling colourful temporary full arm tattoo for men.” “Splendid reusable dog pee pad (minimum order: 500).

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Are you scared yet? Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI - BBC News
Norman is an algorithm trained to understand pictures but, like its namesake Hitchcock's Norman Bates, it does not have an optimistic view of the world. Norman sees a man being electrocuted.

June 11 2018, 5:02am | 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 David Reich: ‘Neanderthals were perhaps capable of many modern human behaviours’ |…
For David Reich, research can be a harrowing experience. The 44-year-old Harvard University geneticist says he now goes to bed terrified he will wake up to find his team’s recent, stunning…

April 15 2018, 10:25am | Comments
Bookmark Google's solution to accidental algorithmic racism: ban gorillas | Technology | The…
After Google was criticised in 2015 for an image-recognition algorithm that auto-tagged pictures of black people as “gorillas”, the company promised “immediate action” to prevent any repetition of the error.

March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments
Bookmark Asking the Right Questions About AI – Yonatan Zunger – Medium
In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world. Self-driving cars will keep us alive; social media bubbles…

February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments
Bookmark How Squids Communicate
Cephalopods loom large in our cultural mythos.

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans - The Atlantic
It was a tense summer day in 1835 Japan. The country’s reigning Go player, Honinbo Jowa, took his seat across a board from a 25-year-old prodigy by the name of Akaboshi…

October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments
Bookmark Mating with Neandertals reintroduced ‘lost’ DNA into modern humans | Science News
ORLANDO, Fla. — Interbreeding with Neandertals restored some genetic heirlooms that modern humans left behind in the ancient exodus from Africa, new research suggests. Those heirlooms are versions of genes, or…

October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments
Bookmark What the Sphinx and Alien Have in Common
I was 13 years old when the movie Alien was released. It scared me into a month-long spell of anxiety. The hair on the back of my neck was perpetually up…

October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments
Bookmark What constitutes an individual organism in biology? | Aeon Essays
When she was two years old, I took my daughter to the American Museum of Natural History for the first time. As we strolled through the displays of taxidermy animals, she…

October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments
Bookmark Earth as hybrid planet: New classification places Anthropocene era in astrobiological context
For decades, as astronomers have imagined advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, they categorized such worlds by the amount of energy their inhabitants might conceivably be able to harness and use.

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence - The New York Times
BEIJING — What worries you about the coming world of artificial intelligence? Too often the answer to this question resembles the plot of a sci-fi thriller. People worry that developments in…

June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Bookmark Princeton researchers discover why AI become racist and sexist | Ars Technica
Ever since Microsoft's chatbot Tay started spouting racist commentary after 24 hours of interacting with humans on Twitter, it has been obvious that our AI creations can fall prey to human…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction
Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present.…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark By 2030, You'll Be Living in a World That's Run by Google
Larry Page, one of Google’s two co-founders, once said off-handedly that Google is not about building a search engine. As he said it, “Oh, we’re really making an AI”. Google right…

March 11 2017, 7:21pm | 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 This Is What Happens When Humans Use Animals to Make Art -…
Though defining exactly what art is is a near-impossible art all its own, human involvement seems to be an essential tenet, whether it's in creation or conceptualization.

March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Humans Mourn Loss After Google Is Unmasked as China’s Go Master -…
BEIJING—A mysterious character named “Master” has swept through China, defeating many of the world’s top players in the ancient strategy game of Go. Master played with inhuman speed, barely pausing to…

January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments

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