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Bookmark Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI - The Atlantic
A dazzlingly fast chatbot cannot replace the authentic and reflective voice of a thinking, living human being.

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
Syllabus Cache The best nonfiction tech books of all time
Not only does Ullman tell us what it was like to be an engineer during the dot-com bubble, but she does it in prose that many professional writers envy.

June 29 2023, 7:34am | Comments
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Syllabus Cache Reddit - Dive into anything
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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Bookmark The Most Realistic Apocalypse Movie Practically Disappeared for 20 Years
In the grand mosaic of cinema, there exists a subset of films for which the term “endurance test” was coined.

May 10 2023, 6:52am | Comments
Bookmark The puzzle of Neanderthal aesthetics - BBC Future
Sometime between 135,000-50,000 years ago, hands slick with animal blood carried more than 35 huge horned heads into a small, dark, winding cave.

May 10 2023, 6:52am | Comments
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
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Bookmark How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history |…
Among the more sombre gifts brought by the Enlightenment was the realisation that humans might one day become extinct.

April 25 2023, 6:51pm | Comments
Podcast Cache How We Normalised the Apocalypse | Novara Media
Can humanity turn back from the brink? Croatian philosopher Srećko Horvat on breaking the spell of end-times nihilism. https://novaramedia.com/2022/04/06/how-we-normalised-the-apocalypse-with-srecko-horvat/

April 21 2023, 1:40am | Comments
Bookmark Game Studies - A Practiced Practice: Speedrunning Through Space With de Certeau…
This paper discusses the emergent gameplay practice known as speedrunning, or the process of completing a game as quickly as possible without the use of cheats or cheat devices, and its…

April 20 2023, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Verge
The world of online fandom has come out against recent strides in disruptive technology: crusading against crypto, for instance, and protesting the widespread scraping of art for use in the training…

April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments
Bookmark Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just…
It’s hard to keep track of all the overlapping technological, environmental, and political crises to worry about in 2023.

April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments
Bookmark Lapedo Child: A Neanderthal, modern human hybrid? - BBC Reel
Big ideas reflecting our evolution and what makes us intrinsically human.

April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments
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People assume that adjusting to climate change means giving up stuff we want. But what if it means giving up things we’re well rid of?

April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments
Bookmark Generative AI: Imagining a future of AI-dominated creativity | VentureBeat
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More AI-generated media has reached an explosive tipping point.

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, 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 The Verge
AI-generated images have gone viral before, but none have spread so far and wide as a picture of the pope wearing what can only be described as a swagged-out puffy jacket.…

April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark How AI is transforming the archaeological world - Verdict
Baiae has become known as the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire. Credit: Francesco Bonino via Shutterstock.

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, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark Solutionism is rampant in artificial intelligence hype.
I won’t watch House of the Dragon, despite its high ratings. The HBO show is a prequel to Game of Thrones, and that series ended so badly I don’t want anything more to…

April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark Shutting down AI is not enough. We need to destroy all technology.…
A TIME article published recently calls for an “indefinite and worldwide” moratorium on new large AI training runs. …

April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark No Reason To Fear AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has engendered some enthusiasm but a lot more fear.

April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark What is Posthumanporn? by Steven Craig Hickman｜HYPER-ANNOTATION｜note
Decadent art is the flower of late civilizations, the sign of the end lies within its apocalyptic beauty which offers only the most morbid and beautiful enrichments, an excess of sensual…

April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI | Ars…
A human player has comprehensively defeated a top-ranked AI system at the board game Go, in a surprise reversal of the 2016 computer victory that was seen as a milestone in…

April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark Custom AI chatbots are quietly becoming the next big thing in fandom
The world of online fandom has come out against recent strides in disruptive technology: crusading against crypto, for instance, and protesting the widespread scraping of art for use in the training…

April 18 2023, 12:53am | Comments

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