It’s hard to disagree with Jason Hickel here: Jason Hickel on X: “It’s not ”artificial“ intelligence, it’s human intelligence. It is the collective knowledge of humanity, produced by countless generations of people, anyone who has ever published a text or created an image, as well as their teachers and their teachers’ teachers. And as such,… Read More »
As AI generated content gets ‘better’ — in the sense of feeling, appearing realistic — does that mean we will more readily accept it? Or will we more readily dismiss it — and all content that might appear to be generated by AI? What happens when we start to suspect that everything is AI generated?… Read More »
This is the first of a series of pieces based on Mary Meeker’s recent deck about AI. The first is an overview of the technology and its current impact.
Drones are changing the way wars are fought, but they’re also changing the way we experience those wars. Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America — not on the battlefields of Vietnam. — Marshall McLuhan (1975) Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar… Read More »
This is the second in a series of pieces I am writing on dystopian movies — — broadly defined — and what they tell us, or could tell us, about our own condition and what prescriptions they might offer for a way forward. In this piece I offer a different interpretation of the two Blade Runner movies and the… Read More »