The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
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Seeing Like a Simulation | Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviewing Chaim Gingold’s “Building SimCity,” Celine Nguyen finds similarities between tech billionaires’ attempts to build a utopian city in Solano, California, and being a godlike player in “SimCity.”
Not much is changing, a lot is changing
OpenAI, Microsoft, and the OpenOffspring
Four pathways to an AI culture | Barcelona Metròpolis | Barcelona City Council
Creative skills can currently be reproduced using deep learning and neural networks, but their true potential lies in the prospects of collaboration rather than replacement. Two distinct subjectivities, one human and one automated, can meet halfway and produce a captivating mutual symbolic space, brimming with possibilities, but also with dead ends. It is both too early and arrogant to hazard a guess as to the artistic impact AI will exert in the medium term.
The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (ARRG!)
Notes prepared for DEFCON31 in Las Vegas
I’m sharing my intro notes introducing ARRG!’s mission, which I’m excited to say was shared with a room that was at capacity (and, unfortunately, many had to be turned away).