artificial-intelligence
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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
