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Synthetic Future(s) retweeted
22 Nov 2022
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
~ Aldous Huxley
Died on this day, in 1963
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Synthetic Future(s) retweeted
23 Nov 2022
This episode encapsulates a clash of philosophical cultures. Also entirely characteristic that it was a junior researcher at Oxford who had the gumption to point out the contradiction. What matters is the quality of the point being made, not the status of the person making it.
Bruno Latour (1947ā2022) āAt a lecture at the University of Oxford in 2003, a junior researcher dared to interrupt Bruno to point out a logical inconsistency. Bruno paused, and exclaimed: āBut I am French!ā, to rapturous applause.ā nature.com/articles/d41586-0ā¦
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24 Nov 2022
An AI named Cicero can beat humans in Diplomacy, a complexĀ alliance-buildingĀ game. Hereās why thatās a bigĀ deal
#philosophy #tech #AI
theconversation.com/an-ai-naā¦
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24 Nov 2022
AI technology and the justice system: Lords committee report
#philosophy #tech #AI
lordslibrary.parliament.uk/aā¦
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24 Nov 2022
AI will shift power towards the autocrats
Democracy thrives on spreading wealth and ideas, two key qualities threatened by technology
#philosophy #tech #AI
thetimes.co.uk/article/ai-wiā¦
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24 Nov 2022
The case for American Psycho:
why this controversial book (sold here in shrink wrap) stillĀ matters
theconversation.com/the-caseā¦
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Synthetic Future(s) retweeted
13 Nov 2022
āThe philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.ā
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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11 Nov 2022
#AI Killed the Hollywood Star?
Artificial intelligence means anyone can cast Hollywood stars in their own films
Free AI software is primed to strip away the control of studios and actors who appears in films
#philosophy #tech #deepfake
qz.com/artificial-intelligenā¦
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11 Nov 2022
AI Ethics And AI Law Fretting Over Worker Burnout In The Ardent Pursuit Of Responsible AI
#philosophy #tech #AI
forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/ā¦
11 Nov 2022
āToo easyāāMidjourney tests dramatic new version of its AI image generator
Version 4 offers greater detail and better compositions from simple prompts.
#philosophy #tech #AI #art
arstechnica.com/information-ā¦
6 Nov 2022
āA beautifully fastidious writer, utterly original,ā said the hard-to-please James Wood. āVonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched,ā wrote J.G. Ballard, who should know.Ā
thecritic.co.uk/issues/novemā¦
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6 Nov 2022
Herzog and Žižek become uncanny #AI bots trapped in endless conversation
New site provides all the finest points of nonsense philosophy, verbalized forever
#philosophy #tech #deepfake
arstechnica.com/information-ā¦
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6 Nov 2022
Machine-learning systems are problematic. Thatās why tech bosses call them āAIā
Pretending that opaque, error-prone ML is part of the grand, romantic quest to find artificial intelligence is an attempt to distract us from the truth
#philosophy #tech #AI
theguardian.com/commentisfreā¦
6 Nov 2022
Haruki Murakami: āEgo is aĀ burdenā
For decades the Norwegian Wood novelist rejected fame. In a rare interview he reveals why he has quit the quiet life and answers accusations of misogyny in hisĀ writing
thetimes.co.uk/article/harukā¦
6 Nov 2022
For an aspiring writer, writing āsomething that simpleā may not be so simple. Itās easy enough to think and talk about ridding your mind of unnecessary things, but actually doing it is hard.
theguardian.com/books/2022/nā¦
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31 Oct 2022
A deepfake video of Joe Biden singing the childrenās song Baby Shark isnāt funny ā it is deeply worrying
#philosophy #tech #deepfake
theguardian.com/commentisfreā¦
31 Oct 2022
Could AI help you to write your next paper?
Large language models can draft abstracts or suggest research directions, but these artificial-intelligence tools are a work in progress.
#philosophy #tech #AI
nature.com/articles/d41586-0ā¦
31 Oct 2022
Biotech begins human trials with drug discovered using #AI
Verge says ALS therapy is one of the first to be developed by a tech-enabled platform
#bioethics #tech
ft.com/content/0006ae3f-7064ā¦
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31 Oct 2022
Biotechnology is creating ethical worriesāand weāve been here before
A new book explores 3 capabilities that are here now, whether we're ready or not
#bioethics #tech #genetics
arstechnica.com/science/2022ā¦
31 Oct 2022
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylan tackles pop, polygamy and PC culture with wicked wit
The Nobel Prize-winning songwriter ducks and dives through these brilliant, surprising essays on 66 of his favourite songs
telegraph.co.uk/books/what-tā¦
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