Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 23

Various modern AI schemes that aren’t nearly as grand as they seem

*I’ve never seen an era when Artificial Intelligence wasn’t swamped in “misinformation.” This misfortune probably starts with the very term “Artificial Intelligence,” which is kinda...

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What happened last time with a Chinese coronavirus epidemic

*Can’t tell the players without the historical playbook. It wasn’t pretty, but it was quite some time ago, and eventually people forgot about it THE...

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Musica Globalista: classical music fans busting up the joint

*I’m unconvinced that an Italian Futurist rave counts as “classical,” but, when it was first premiered none of it was “classical,” it was just music....

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Artificial Intelligence art critics

*Well, it’s a pretty blurry and messed-up area of tech art development at the moment. Kind of a grab bag, since “artificial intelligence” means all...

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Imaginary Papers from ASU Center for Science and the Imagination

One might learn something Welcome to Imaginary Papers! This is a new quarterly newsletter from the Center for Science and the Imagination, focused on science...

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Everything is Someone – Future fables about people and technology and everything in between

*It’s some design fiction that is actual fiction, more or less. https://www.vetroeditions.com/Everyth... Everything is Someone – Future fables about people and technology and everything in...

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Clayton Christensen is no longer with us

*The prophet of disruptive innovation and also a Mormon theologian, who knew. *I read the works of Christensen, and I often thought that his ideas...

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Athanasius Kircher, special FX guy

*He had been an obscure Jesuit professor with a gift for languages, until a public event with stage machinery first made him famous.

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Click the tile on the brain region connectivity feed map

The digitized brain of Drosophila

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Dead Media Beat: chatting with a film archivist

*They’re doing the work of the angels here, but there sure are a lot of tall weeds. Those who worship the Ninth Muse end up...

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