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A New AI Lexicon Archives
A New AI Lexicon Archives
In January 2021, we launched ‘A New AI Lexicon:’ a call for contributions to generate alternate narratives, positionalities, and understandings to the better known and widely circulated ways of talking about AI.
aixdesign·ainowinstitute.org·
A New AI Lexicon Archives
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?
The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.
aixdesign·newyorker.com·
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?
TESCREALism: The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares
TESCREALism: The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares
To understand the divide between AI boosters and doomers, one must unpack their common origins in a bundle of ideologies known as TESCREAL.
At the heart of TESCREALism is a “techno-utopian” vision of the future. It anticipates a time when advanced technologies enable humanity to accomplish things like: producing radical abundance, reengineering ourselves, becoming immortal, colonizing the universe and creating a sprawling “post-human” civilization among the stars full of trillions and trillions of people. The most straightforward way to realize this utopia is by building superintelligent AGI.
aixdesign·truthdig.com·
TESCREALism: The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares
Zach Blas
Zach Blas
On artist Zach Blas's wide-ranging practice that scrutinizes the relationship between digital technologies and the cultures and politics that animate them.Za...
aixdesign·mitpress.mit.edu·
Zach Blas
Underutilized.
Underutilized.
Generative AI is just Big Data 2.0.
aixdesign·cyberneticforests.substack.com·
Underutilized.
The stupidity of AI
The stupidity of AI
The long read: Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous
aixdesign·theguardian.com·
The stupidity of AI
Press freedom means controlling the language of AI
Press freedom means controlling the language of AI
Generative AI systems act like "stochastic parrots," using statistical models to guess word orders and pixel placements. That's incompatible with a free press that commands its own words.
aixdesign·niemanlab.org·
Press freedom means controlling the language of AI
How to Glitch AI - Outland
How to Glitch AI - Outland
Prompt-based image generators seem unhackable. But a committed glitch artist can still instigate interventions.
aixdesign·outland.art·
How to Glitch AI - Outland