Category: Culture
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Take to the streets! (with chocolate)
It’s hard to know how to process the final run up to the US election. It seems so absurd and unreal – everything drawn in hyper-caricature, no sense allowed to be made, single apostrophes being asked to carry the weight of a whole democracy, and a stunt in a garbage truck more powerful a signifier…
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Not OK, Computer?
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” – AI Training Statement / https://www.aitrainingstatement.org/ Over 11,000 artists, writers, actors, musicians and others in the creative industries have signed the above statement, expressing their opposition…
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Honey, you look thirsty
Interesting piece in The Conversation this week about relationships with AI chat-bots… and the market models that they are using that invariably tap into human desires. The idea of an AI partner was well explored in the film HER. But what’s missing from that is any dimension of value-extraction. This is not how things are…
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Process This – AI Series with me, Tripp Fuller… and leading global thinkers on AI
As you may have picked up, top US podcaster Tripp Fuller and I have been co-hosting a series of expert conversations with leading thinkers on AI, inspired by my book, God-Like: a 500-Year History of AI. The list of interviewees is PHENOMENAL! From Lord Tim Clement-Jones – lead on AI regulation in the House of…
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‘No god in the machine’
Really good edition of The Guardian’s ‘long read’ released as an audio piece last week: ‘No god in the machine,’ written by Navneet Alang and read by Narinder Samra, based on an article published in August. It’s a very well crafted overview of the AI space, and the ‘tech solutionism’ that I’ve been talking about…
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‘Good’ Grief?
An interesting piece of video journalism here, taking a look at ‘Grief Tech’ and the hope that some bros in Silicon Valley are holding out that they can ‘solve’ the problem of grief and loss. It’s interesting for many reasons, not least because it presents AI (again) as a god-like force that we should turn…