Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
Last night, I listened to Charli XCX's new song, 'SS26'. She's super doomer in it, singing 'we're walking on a runway straight to hell, nothing's gonna save us art, fashion or film'. And I thought, damn even rich celebrities are feelin it.
So if even money and fame doesn't insulate you, what does? Earlier this week, Eric Schmidt, the Google co-founder, was booed during a commencement speech in Arizona. The youth have definitively turned against tech. 20 years ago, tech was the silver bullet; a creator of abundance that would free us. Now, we realise it might be used to trap us in a 'permanent underclass'. The only ones that seem to be 'winning' are our new tech overlords.
The closer you are to them, generally, the more you seem pleased with the state of affairs. Which makes the tech workers like the 8000 Meta discarded last week real wild cards. They've devoted years of their lives building for an infrastructure that ironically is now going to toss them aside. So will they try to cling onto their proximity to power, or change allegiances? Perhaps Charli's partnership with Nothing is the answer. If money and fame don't save you, proximity to the machine might.
originally the Blade Runner opening titles were to be set in red Impact; they instead went with Goudy Oldstyle, signaling to audiences it wasnβt an action film
Quite simply the best thing I've read on AI:
"...the people who built AI have shown themselves singularly ill-equipped to understand what it can and canβt do. Perhaps thatβs because they tend not to understand what humans can and canβt do."
"Put simply, we like to think we can get something bigger than us to do the job of being human for us. But weβre it: the highest form of life on this planet, God help us. The buck stops with us."
from @SpencerKlavan in @LawLiberty. Read the whole piece here:
https://t.co/cvUWfdbWIK
This is exactly right. The verb is βselectionβ or, I prefer, βeditingβ. Taste is a noun, so it fails to fully communicate the work needed to be done. AI is an incredible collaborator, but you need to still own the ideas with clarity and conviction.
I just read this piece thanks to Garbage Day (the best newsletter about the internet ever written). This kind of lazy "cultural critique" can only happen if you keep pretending that there is the INTERNET, and REAL LIFE, and somehow they aren't the same thing https://t.co/j0VAbuQ8IN
the future is just an endless churn of adapting your consumption habits to whatever venture-capital-backed seller is currently selling at a loss to capture market share
almost impossible to overestimate how many of these apple is going to sell. have you seen how bad the βcheapest laptop that gets me onlineβ market is? this is gonna be like if the thing that killed all the dodos was a terminator. a t-1000 terminator.