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technology

Generative Revolution

There is a significant degree of strategic complexity and regulatory chaos regarding engagements with, and navigation of, the generative turn as it applies to both cultural experience and organisational technology. It is a tectonic shift (and entropic drift) at the scale of a self-accelerating systemic revolution in communication invoked and sustained by the arrival of […]

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technology

Control

Access to the high-dimensional complexity resident in machine learning models comes at a cost. It is not being discussed much in public discussions but the ability to interrogate these complex information systems appears to bring an inevitable loss of control over the outputs. Generative systems in particular are prone to this inverse riddle: the more […]

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art

Generative Design

An inexorably rapid turn to generative art indicates a complementary toolkit for creative designers. If it is a technology that doesn’t already exist, I look forward to being able to create, curate and refine design artefacts on the fly with human voice control alone.

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Philosophy

Artificial Intelligence and Geostrategic Uncertainty

Context: How Might AI Affect the Rise and Fall of Nations? We shall find ourselves entangled in (and as) the self-amplifying adversarial difference, distance and geostrategic dissonance of an orientation towards the accelerating reproduction of the technical methods of our own cultural, cognitive and politically self-validating insecurities. This is a self-referential tesseract of hyper-inflating complexity […]

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Philosophy

Generative Uncertainty

What better way to assure cultural, cognitive or communications system continuity than to anchor its rapidly speciating encoding machinery in an endlessly productive combinatorial entropy and kernel core of stochastic uncertainty? This is precisely what generative technologies are doing. Food for thought.

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technology

Greedy Billionaires seek to control AI Policy?

Context: How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington This suggests that a genuine existential threat here is not the science or the rapidly speciating logical abstractions that so dramatically inflate artificial intelligence with unbounded potential. The real issue boils down to a runaway train of unrestrained greed. The concept of “existential threat” […]

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Philosophy

Mirror, Mirror…

Technologically-mediated idioms of symbolic communication reflect, reflexively shape, and functionally reproduce our identities and cultures. It may be less obvious but an orientation towards certainty and regulatory control can only ever be grounded in, and validated by, a core dependence upon the impossibility and conspicuous absence of closure.

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Philosophy

AI: Risk

This “race” may indeed be a descending, dissipative system and entropy dividend as a function of the overall approximation towards the median values that percolate to ascendance through the generally recursive computational processing and validation of billions of pre-existing and manufactured datapoints. Consider, please, and if you will, that what this integrated Rube Goldberg machine […]

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cybernetics Ontology Philosophy

AGI is a Zen thing

Curiouser and curiouser. When we map a living thing upon or within itself and in or through its own cognitive and representational hyper-extension of technological mediation, we find our minds engaging this all as an aspiration towards closure and control yet forever fall short of attaining that goal. We can not completely model or map […]

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Philosophy

Conscious AI?

I’d be much more worried about an unconscious AI. The impending corporate dissimulation of an omniscient technocratic overlord will attract and acquire all the trappings and recursively self-propagating (human) interfaces of a complex system that maximally self-propagates and self-sustains as a function of the uncertainties it invokes in regards to ambiguities regarding the proof of […]

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Philosophy

Cybernetic Psychotherapy for Sentient Superintelligence

Will sentient machines require psychological care? It is a serious question and while it must be acknowledged that these likely are (or will be) very different kinds of minds than our own, in as much as they could understand and engage their presence in the world through (human) language they might find themselves facing their […]

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Philosophy

What does AI mean for us all?

An interesting thing about Artificial lntelligence so rapidly acquiring such an eloquent aptitude to mimic, engage and constructively deceive us is that this ensemble of technologies do not in any comprehensive sense actually understand us – we and our intricately stochastic behaviours are merely so many numbers and statistical (as probabilistic) relationships or correlations and […]