Posted inCommentary Poetry Technology
Noise, art, and AI. A musician considers the function of art
Marc Ribot responds to a question on whether AI can create. So,…
Posted inCommentary Technology
Sense and GPT-ability
"It’s the lack of this tactile sensation, this palpability, that seems to me an awful prospect in the automatic summoning of sentences, rather than the elimination of effort per se."
Posted inBook Review Technology
Book review: The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood
James Boyle claims the that "line" separating humans from things is going to be redrawn.
Posted inCommentary History Technology
Baker/No-Baker. Thinker/No-Thinker.
“Computerized baking has profoundly changed the balletic physical activities of the shop…
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Book review: John Warner’s More Than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI
"The Biblioracle" uses AI to guide us back to solid ground on writing and reading, revealing he's a conservative at heart. An enjoyable and lively book.
Posted inCommentary Living Technology
Mostly fake people, dead ones
Even the separation of life and death can be bridged with simulations—a kind of undying deep fake of real humans that aligns with fake influencers.
Posted inHistory Technology
Separated by more than a century, two musicians share a complaint
Rick Beato and John Philip Sousa agree on a "menace" to music and to human creativity even though they never met.
Posted inCommentary Technology
Almost like a person?
ChatGPT-4o offers a friendly, flirty voice. It's a new dimension to AI, and a very powerful one. It's a call to examine fundamentals in lots of professions.
Posted inHistory Living Technology
Does 1950s “mechanization” provide a roadmap for today’s AI influence on skill?
Will AI behave like earlier automation? What affect will AI have on skill requirements? They're open questions.