AI
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Curating The Week: Experience In The Digital Age, Swing Changes And Teachers, Social Media Art, Narrative Warfare
“It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images of the world and has thus been drawn into the human realm, which now encompasses everything. There is no place, no thing, no person or phenomenon that I cannot obtain as image or information. One might think this adds substance to the world,… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: AI and The Mind, AI and The Humanities, Enji
“It’s becoming clear that artificial intelligence can relieve us of the burden of trying and trying again. A.I. systems make it trivially easy to take an existing thing and ask for a new iteration.” “The whole painful cycle of trying, failing, revising, judging, and redoing can be replaced with something simpler: plucking the most suitable… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: The Bottleneck, Drum Machines, AI and Writing, What To Do
• An essay on the bottleneck. “The bottleneck of the digital age is different: The new era is killing us softly, by drawing people out of the real and into the virtual, distracting us from the activities that sustain ordinary life, and finally making existence at a human scale seem obsolete.” “It starts with substitution:… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Athletic Training, Work, Elite Cubing, AI Love
• An essay an athletic training. “The main idea of my training program was that you will become good at whatever it is that you train.” “My training program was very simple and therefore very robust. It was cheap and reliable. Not fancy nor extraordinary. I tried not to involve things that I could not… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: AI Voice Bots, AI Writing, Brian Eno’s Production Approach, Skateboarding
• An article about interacting with AI conversation agents. “Other modern sciences have constrained themselves in accordance with an emerging code of ethics. There are weapons that physicists have sworn not to build, experiments biologists have agreed not to conduct. Nothing holds back computer scientists from developing talking machines that pretend to be humans.” •… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Nostalgia, AI’s Influence On Programming, Making An Album A Day
• An essay on nostalgia. “Much as the pocket calculator long ago caused arithmetic skills to atrophy, newer technologies have made history ubiquitous instead of chronological, let alone explanatory. Mashups are now constructed with no real deliberateness but as part of a steady acquisitive spree through the videos that crowd our screens. We doomscroll and… Continue reading
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