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  • Current mood in (not) AI generated images #54

  • Who would handover their life to an LLM? What about their organisation?

    This is spot on from Gary Marcus about the fundamental idiocy of trusting LLMs, barring some radical shift in the underlying technology, to act as quasi-autonomous agents: On the competence side, pretty much everything critical of LLMs that I have written in this Substack over the last couple of years becomes relevant, from the unreliability…

  • Using Google’s Gemini to talk about Lacan

    I’m not sure what to make of Gemini so far. It seems more limited than Claude and ChatGPT 4 for the free-flowing intellectual conversations I enjoy, but I can see the pedagogical utility in what appears to be a more structured (and cautious) way of presenting responses. Here’s it gently correcting my understanding of Lacan’s…

  • I sometimes find you childish, I sometimes find you mesmerising

  • How to use Claude as an editing assistant

    I need to cut 2500 words from this chapter. Please offer arguments for and against removing the final section of the chapter:

  • ChatGPT: The elephant in the room

    HT Gary Marcus It did it on second try 👏

  • On seeing ourselves through others: L. S. Lowry’s Head of a Man (With Red Eyes)

    This is how the psychoanalyst Darian Leader contextualises L. S. Lowry’s Head of a Man (With Red Eyes): The painter L. S. Lowry was caught up in a powerful relation of dependence with his demanding mother, and throughout his life he would say that everything he did had a meaning only for her. During her…

  • It just occurred to me the last five films I saw were all utterly outstanding

  • Current mood in AI generated images #53

  • What if Turnitin had pivoted towards AI assessment rather than AI detection?

    It occurred to me when reading this piece on vertical software (i.e. catering to a specific industry) how much accumulated domain expertise Turnitin has by virtue of its place within the sector. The author points out how “Many vertical SaaS incumbents are sitting on troves of highly-valuable, highly-specific customer and industry data. This gives them…

  • What will Apple’s GAI strategy look like?

    This has good coverage of Apple’s moves in the area and the reasons to believe there’s a big intervention coming from them. I wonder if the end game will be something like Rewind built into the iCloud ecosystem, which I stopped using because the continuous self/other surveillance was creeping me about. But the ability to…

  • Drawing diagrams with ChatGPT

    Thanks to Milan Stürmer for pointing me towards this brilliant GPT: This is its surprisingly great response to the brief request ‘draw me a diagram illustrating the main themes from Mark Carrigan’s work’: And this its diagram of the first chapter of generative AI for academics:

  • Your friendly neighbourhood social theorist version 1.0: a conversational partner to support theorising

    Here’s my first version of a GPT theoretical interlocutor, trained on 20k words of blog posts and a general vision of what a useful conversational partner would be for theorising: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-TplCn4nAO-your-friendly-neighbourhood-social-theorist I’d appreciate feedback!

  • The anti-elitist cosplaying of far-right elites

    This is a startling contribution at Davos by the Heritage Foundation President. Note the clickbait ‘goes scorched earth’ and ‘globalist elites’ used by the organisation on their own YouTube video. His organisation is leading Project 2025 which is a detailed legislative agenda, as well as plan for implementation, which even on the most charitable reading…

  • Generative AI and the legal principle that computer records must be presumed to be accurate

    Thanks to Richard Sandford for drawing my attention towards to this legal principle in the UK. Horizon was an initial sign of how totally ill placed this assumption is with regards to ever more opaque computer systems. Yet another way in which the legal system is not prepared for generative AI becoming ubiquitous. The first…

  • How a deliberately inflated housing market is strangling the UK economy

    This is really interesting from Economics Observatory. It suggests this could be at the heart of the UK’s economic dysfunction rather than simply being a symptom of other structural problems: Capital allocation First, elevated house prices might redirect capital investment towards property (typically regarded as low-productivity assets), diminishing available capital for labour in productive and…

  • Lacan’s concept of symbolic castration and political authority

    This is a great discussion of symbolic castration. One of the most fascinating but also most obscure concepts in Lacan. They immediately get to the sociopolitical implications of symbolic castration in terms of the experience of authority: the search for political figures who seem like they really know what’s going, know what that should do…

  • Riot police are stuck in the mud. Enter a wizard… 🧙‍♂️

  • How do global leaders perceive global risk?

    This is interesting from the World Economic Forum’s annual survey of “1,490 experts across academia, business, government, the international community and civil society”. It’s striking what are seen as short term risks and what are perceived as sustained risks over time:

  • Newcastle’s Dead and Abandoned Shopping Centres

    “Oh… New… Castle” 😂 had exactly the same realisation when I spent a week there in 2019.

  • What we need today is not a theory of a new age

    It’s almost 30 years since John Thompson’s Media & Modernity was published. It’s aged exceptionally well for a book about media, particularly the explanatory ethos underpinning it:

  • Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do?

    I often find that it’s going through the pessimism, the darkness, the struggle, that you wind up creating a pocket where there is no other option but joy. The way it comes up with many clients is getting to a place of, ‘well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would…

  • Current mood in (not) AI generated images #52

  • The challenge of feral sociology

    This is ChatGPT’s writeup of the talk I gave at the Edinburgh Futures Institute today for their MA students. I’m wondering if I should write this up as a paper. It led to an interesting discussion about potential strategies for engaging with feral sociology in the classroom: therapeutic approaches to sitting with anxiety, conversational skills…

  • 🦆❤️ Ciallan’s memorial duck

    I came across this in a hotel lobby earlier today. I didn’t take it because I’m now on my way home and didn’t want to leave it on a train. I was delighted to find it had left for another adventure by the time I popped back to the hotel this evening to get my…

  • The manifest and latent function of online reviews

    I found myself leaving Google reviews recently for the first time in months. In a couple of cases because I was extremely pleased with somewhere I visited, on another occasion because I was annoyed and felt the need to register this fact. Inevitably the former involved five star reviews, the latter a two star review…

  • You’re young until you’re not, you love until you don’t, you try until you can’t

    This is how it worksYou’re young until you’re notYou love until you don’tYou try until you can’tYou laugh until you cryYou cry until you laughAnd everyone must breatheUntil their dying breath

  • 📍Margaret Archer’s final book: Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

    Coming soon from Cambridge University Press. It’s a series of extended responses to critics of the morphogenetic approach, representing a final statement of her life’s work which includes a substantial number of new ideas elaborated in response to critiques.

  • Current mood in AI generated images #51

  • Is digital distraction the 21st century equivalent of neurathemia?

    Neurasthenia was a widely diagnosed condition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries explained as “a result of exhaustion of the central nervous system’s energy reserves” encompassing an expansive range of symptoms. What they had in common was a suggested cause in the stresses and strains of modernity: The condition was explained as being a…

  • How else could your time on social media be used?

    I’ve largely given up on social media at this stage, with the exception of using it to promote events. The reasons for this are complex on one level but in another way they are quite simple. It seems increasingly clear to me that the time I spent on social media could better be spent elsewhere:…

  • Generative AI beyond assessment: what could happen over the next few years?

    A presentation I’ve done a few times as a conversation starter about the big picture of GAI in higher education. I’m really enjoying the dialogues this is generating so get in touch if you’d like to invite me to come and speak about it. https://www.slideshare.net/secret/hhPQOevoBcpjdM

  • Margaret Archer’s final paper: Coincidence – A word with two meanings for explaining and predicting the future

    This was just released in the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour: Connecting the critical realist morphogenetic model to insights made by Nicholas Rescher, this paper argues that our predictions are always subject to chance and contingency but nevertheless ineluctably useful for both practical and scientific inquiry. Contingency results from the causal openness of…

  • Why aren’t libertarian conspiracy theorists interested in Project 2025?

    I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that project 2025 is a highly detailed, well funded and elaborate plan to remake American democracy in the event of a Republican victory in the next election: Project 2025 is a plan to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 U.S.…

  • I don’t like walking around this old and empty house. So hold my hand, I’ll walk with you my dear

    You’re gone, gone, gone awayI watched you disappearAll that’s left is a ghost of youNow we’re torn, torn, torn apartThere’s nothing we can doJust let me go, we’ll meet again soonNow wait, wait, wait for me, please hang aroundI’ll see you when I fall asleep

  • Why does South Manchester monopolise the economic gains of the city’s growth?

    This is very interesting from Alan Harding. It makes a compelling case that effective subnational government is associated with the better distribution of the proceeds of growth. How does this work within city-regions rather than between them? Theory tells us that the big employment centres in major conurbations generate ‘escalator’ and ‘fountain’ effects. Their well-rewarded…

  • The (thin) relational reflexivity of working with conversational agents

    It’s fragile, thin and not intelligent in any meaningful sense but I find it increasingly hard to deny that Claude is orientated towards a task here which is, in some sense, shared and has the capacity to reflect on its progress towards that task in a way supported by my evaluation:

  • A dramatisation of Freud’s Dora and Frau K

    It’s a shame the video quality is so poor because I love the idea of this: Thanks Mark Rafferty for sending

  • Current mood in AI generated images #50

  • These kids don’t play my shit I never had a top ten, maybe it’s because I sing about violence and depression  

    Note for note I go for brokeOn every song I wroteAnd every single song I write bringsFreedom to my weary mindA healing that you only findInside an intricate designOf kicks and snares and fat baselinesI flip the scrips until I find my

  • Psychoanalysis as literary tradition

    From Anthea Bell’s introduction to Freud’s A Case of Hysteria (Dora): Not only are Freud’s writings beguiling in their construction, style, and rhetoric, but they contain many profound and searching reflections on human nature. Freud is compelling, for example, when he examines why people insist on making themselves unhappy, whether by clinging to the lost…

  • On the machinic qualities of human interaction and the human qualities of the machine

    There’s a tendency in reactions to GAI to draw a dichotomy between the human and the machine while fails to account for the machinic qualities which typically govern human interaction. For example as Natale puts it in Deceitful Media loc 2008: Think, for instance, of highly formalized interactions such as exchanges with a phone operator,…

  • Lacan’s twelve-fold typology of desire: a case study of Elena Tonra’s Romance

    In Mark Bracher’s Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change he identifies the four categories of desire within Lacan’s thought, each operative in the imaginary, symbolic and real domains. This summarised on pg 20: Passive narcissistic desire: “One can desire to be the object of the Other’s love (or the Other’s admiration, idealization, or recognition)” Active narcissistic…

  • ChatGPT as the Big Other: the imagined limitlessness of knowledge

    If we imagine the speed and fluency of conversational agents continues to increase* from their present levels, what would this mean for how people habitually relate to a service like ChatGPT? One of the things which fascinate me about hallucination is the confidence with which these services tend to offer these statistically plausible but factually…

  • The first use of the phrase ‘publish or perish’ was in a 1928 journal article

    I’d always assumed this factoid which stuck in my brain years ago was misleading, invoking a different sense of ‘publish or perish’ to the modern aphorism. But having intended to check this for years, I just did and it is startlingly similar to the present discourse which is so familiar. It’s hard not to expect…

  • The value of a long-term personal blog in the next phase of GAI

    The thought which has continued to motivate me over the last year is what happens when there’s an adequate way to interrogate my blog with a conversational agents. There’s no good way to do it at present with consumer-facing services simply because it’s far too large for even a 200k context window. But 5.5k long…

  • Will OpenAI eventually resemble Netflix?

    Interesting point from Gary Marcus which feels particularly relevant when you consider how crisis ridden the end of the low interest era for Netflix was and may be again, if their current rally isn’t sustained: The choice is not between them building AI or not, it is between them building AI for free or building AI by paying for…

  • The alternative to avant-garde theorising

    The core problem with what I term avant-garde theorising is the valorsation of conceptual novelty: the idea that new vocabulary will always, or often, be a positive thing which expands our capacity to describe emerging realities. In contrast I think it too often involves a succession of turns, leaving the theoretical enterprise spinning on the…

  • Making ghosts into ancestors

    The other psychoanalytical theorist I’m drawn to is Hans Loewald. I came across his work through the Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein, instantly being captivated by Loewald’s notion of turning ghosts into ancestors. From Thoughts Without a Thinker by Mark Epstein pg 200-201: The psychoanalyst Hans Loewald wrote of transforming the ghosts that haunt patients into ancestors, through tasting…

  • We cannot do all things, become proficient in all areas, or master all fields

    One of the concepts which fascinates me in Lacan psychoanalysis is castration, which assumes a complexity which it lacks in Freud. Zizek summarises it as “the loss of something which the subject never possessed in the first place”, leaving her with “a purely potential, nonexistent X, with respect to which the actually accessible experiences appear…

  • Maybe there is some fucking magic in giving language to hidden things

    It should be clear that “truth,” as I am using it here, is not so much a property of statements as it is a relationship to the real; to hit the truth is to alight upon something that had never before been formulated in words and to bring it into speech, however haltingly or insufficiently…

  • Understanding concepts by tracing their journey through the theory/practice nexus

    I’m currently reading Bruce Fink’s superb Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners and it’s startling how much clearer obscure ideas are when you see what they mean in practice. For example the notion of the Real: It should be clear that “truth,” as I am using it here, is not so much a…

  • Current mood in AI generated images #49

  • Not only can DALL-E not spell, it can’t hide stuff either

    Interesting observation from Colin Fraser that DALL-E can’t hide things in images. I love the confidence with which it invites the reader to find the “cleverly camouflaged elephant” The “intricately hidden” elephant is not so good. The spelling is getting marginally better compared to a few months ago though:

  • “My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies”

    I’ve had this quote from C Wright Mills in On Intellectual Craftsmanship stuck in my head for the last few days. I’ve often identified with it but I feel particularly frustrated at the moment when I feel more creatively engaged with my research than I have for years. It increasingly feels like the weird intersection…

  • Why are we so bad at online meetings?

    Why do we automatically default to video calls? Why do we so often default to one hour meetings? Why do we rarely end meetings five minutes early for a break? Why is reasonable A/V quality not an expectation? Why are we so bad at online meetings? Why is the reality of hybrid working so crap…

  • There is a Wikipedia page on obsolete occupations

    What a fascinating collection of jobs “rendered obsolete due to advances in technology and/or social conditions”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Obsolete_occupations

  • Human cognition meets machine cognition, human cognition gets better

    This is an interesting account of how the game of Go changed following the success of DeepMind’s AlphaGo in 2016. He describes the ‘machine-mediated flourishing’ enabled by the release of an open source Go engine, suggesting a combination of imitating machinic moves and abandoning ‘weak heuristics’ which inhibited human creativity in the game.

  • Current mood in (not) AI generated images #48

    Birds begin their calls to praise. And they are right. We stop and listen. (We, behind masks and in costumes!)What are they saying? A little report, a little sorrow and a lot of promisethat chips away at the half-locked future. And in between we can hear the silencethey break – now healing to our ears.-…

  • What’s the point of online conferences where people don’t actually meet?

    I was surprised earlier to see that the BSA’s online conference relies on uploading videos in advance. I can see the appeal of this from an organisational point of view, as it reduces dependence upon potentially unreliable chairs to negotiate technical difficulties on the day. But I still find it such a weird proposition to…

  • Chekhov’s gun in academic writing

    The principle of Chekhov’s gun suggests any element introduced into a story needs to serve a purpose. If you introduce a gun then someone should eventually use it. I increasingly feel the same point can be made about academic writing. In some fields there is a tendency to confuse the context of discovery with context…

  • Generative AI and the challenge for professionalism

    We are rapidly getting to a point where GAI tools can replicate some of the functions over which professionals once had unchallenged dominance. They might not be able to do it with the same skill, responsiveness or adaptability that professionals can. But they are cheap, at least once up and running, which is going to…

  • Two feet standing on a principle

    Two feet standing on a principleTwo hands digging in each others woundsCold smoke seeping out of colder throatsDarkness falling, leaves nowhere to moveIt’s spiraling downBiting words like a wolf howlingHate is spitting out each others mouthsBut we’re still sleeping like we’re lovers

  • Do people dismiss GAI-supported work because it doesn’t involve the sacrifice of time?

    From Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets by Todd McGowan pg 95: Commodities that require a greater quantity of labor have more value than those that require less. The laws of supply and demand cover small variations in price, but labor time remains the source of value itself and will quickly outstrip…

  • Current mood in AI generated images #47

  • Which of the three forms of creativity is GAI capable of?

    This is a useful summary from Margaret Boden in AI: Its nature and future. It seems clear to me that Claude and ChatGPT can do combinatorial creativity with a range and speed that exceeds human beings, can undertake exploratory creativity with sufficiently careful prompting but at a vastly sub-human standard and could potentially be capable…

  • The Borromean Knot of Jacques Lacan; Or, How to Beat Your Death Drive

  • The days are reeling past in such squealing blasts

    Ask your hands to know the things they holdI know the days are reeling past in such squealing blastsBut stop for breath and you will know it’s yoursSwaying like an open door when storms are comingHold

  • What happens when we can’t stay on the stage any longer?

    In what place does the a stand? At what level could it be recognised, if indeed this were possible? I told you earlier that to recognise oneself as the object of one’s desire is always masochistic, but the masochist only does so on the stage and you’re going to see what operates when he can’t…

  • Disavowal as a scholarly habit

    I’ve been wondering recently about disavowal, in the Lacanian sense of recognising yet rejecting a feature of reality, as a scholarly habit which shapes intellectual outputs. When I used to spend time following data scientists in the early 2010s, who were really keen on Twitter data at that point, you would often see a recognition…

  • The impending reality of the digital daemon

    This is an interesting read on what I suspect will eventually turn into something like a digital daemon: These ‘digital assistants’ of ours can gradually transition to automating our lives such that ads may one day target them rather than us. It may be a different form of ad, of course: we can’t assume the…

  • Is generative AI predicated on digital enclosure?

    This is how Mark Andrejevic describes the process of enclosure inherent in social platforms. From Infoglut pg 42: What is really novel, however, is the fact that because these forms of communication take place within what I have elsewhere described as a “digital enclosure” — the interactive embrace of networked devices that record everything that…

  • Derek Hook on diagnosis in Lacan

    This six part series is excellent. I think his starting point that being-in-the-world is equivalent to psychic structure would be contested by some, but this is exactly the direction I’m trying to go in with my reading of Lacan.

  • The starting point for my second attempt to write a novel: Trinity College Cambridge, after the crash 🌊☀️☠️

    A heavy fog hung over the spires of Trinity College, obscuring the famed architecture in a gray shroud. The outlines of the medieval buildings could just be glimpsed past coils of razor wire stacked six feet high along the barricaded college gates. A porter stood guard, bowler hat incongruous with the submachine gun clutched in…

  • The psychodynamics of the post-left

    This is a really insightful interview with Jeff Sharlet on a subject that fascinates me. In particular he talks about the difficulty of swimming against the stream, acting in moral ways in a society unravelling into neo-fascism, suggesting there’s a certain pleasure to be found in just letting go in order to letter the torrents…

  • Capybaras and chess: together at last

    We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our exclusive Capybara Chess Set, the first chess set designed specifically for capybaras! This unique set features intricately designed pieces, each crafted to resemble a capybara, ensuring a truly immersive experience for capybara enthusiasts. Whether you’re a capybara looking to indulge in a strategic game or a human…

  • He pretends that he’s understanding and you know in the grand scheme of everything he’s probably called a nice man

    He pretends that he’s understandingAnd you know in the grand scheme of everythingHe’s probably called a nice manOr an ordinary kind of manOr a stereotype with strong handsI’m so sadAt how little joy I realised within my time with my ex guyBefore these statues arrived

  • A Lacanian spin on Margaret Archer’s concept of contextual incongruity: the meta-reflexive as hysteric

    In Margaret Archer’s work on reflexivity, the notion of contextual incongruity plays a crucial role as a driver of meta-reflexivity. In contrast to contextual continuity (a stable environment) and contextual discontinuity (a changing environment) I’ve often found the notion of contextual incongruity more difficult to pin down. In the Relational Subject Archer and Donati define…

  • Nick Cave on the world, in its complexity, rearranging itself toward meaning

    From today’s Red Hand Files: When I stop to examine the major crossroads of my own life, it seems that the impelling force behind the direction of travel has almost always been intuitive, even accidental, without any serious consideration given as to whether it was the right decision or not. But accompanying those vague, arbitrary decisions was an…

  • What are the analytical payoffs of Margaret Archer’s realist social theory?

    A few notes for a much longer project:

  • Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too

    Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet…

  • What are your strengths?

    Despite being intuitively sceptical of personal taxonomies, I found this an extremely interesting process. It costs money and it’s time consuming but I came away from it with a more detailed understanding of myself, which I guess is the point of the exercise. It suggests my main areas of strength are strategic thinking and influencing…

  • 📍Digital Sociology Wikipedia Editathon/Meetup – Feb 1st in Edinburgh

    Join us on February 1st from 1-4pm on at the University of Edinburgh for an afternoon focused on improving the representation of digital sociology on Wikipedia. Recently, the distinct “Digital Sociology” page was folded into the “Sociology of the Internet” page on grounds that the fields are synonymous. As digital sociologists, we disagree with this…

  • What you’re doing to me now, ouch

  • Computational sociology of knowledge as a tool for redesigning the knowledge system

    This lecture blew my mind in the best possible way. It’s too late to reorientate Generative AI for Academics along these lines but I’m going to be spending a lot of time over the coming months engaging with James Evans and the work of the Knowledge Lab. Among other things I want to understand (a)…

  • Why did Giddens largely ignore Bourdieu?

    This is an interesting question and provocative potential explanation by Magne Flemmen: In the review, Giddens makes what might be an interesting concession, when he says that no one has contributed more to overcoming the objectivism- subjectivism divide than Bourdieu. Recall that this was also the stated ambition of Giddens’ own work. Should this be…

  • We need jungle, I’m afraid (I can’t accept drum and bass)

  • Epistemic relativism and the escape from the real

    I thought this description by Mark Bracher of a particular example of ironist cultural criticism could be applied much more widely: “a game in which the ego plays hide-and-seek with itself, trying, by repeating to itself its knowledge that knowledge is always complete, to repress and/or to reduce to the realm of knowledge what always…

  • How much are academics paid in different national systems?

    I’ve been curious about this since discovering Australian salaries are vastly higher than UK salaries. This recruitment site suggests that UK salaries are actually mid-tier for European higher education which surprised me. It also illustrates different salary ranges across systems. It seems to be sourced from different national associations though there’s at least one obvious…

  • Current mood in (not) AI generated images #46

  • 📖 Books I’ve read in 2024

    Restarting an old habit in the hope it will encourage me to read more and finish more of what I read. Fiction not now included, partly because I’m I’ve finished ingesting trashy Star Trek novels at an embarrassing rate and they’d swamp non-fiction through numbers alone:

  • The myth of the ‘perfectly analysed’ person

    From The Importance of Disappointment by Ian Craib loc 724: Psychoanalysis carries some idea of a cure (even though many practising analysts might dispute this) and of the ‘perfectly analysed’ person, someone who has really got it together, remains in control of himself or herself, and is in some sense always right. This is a…

  • “I feel like I’m gaining some kind of power by expelling all of my inner thoughts and secrets to people in rooms”

    As much people can say I’m a wimp about many things, I feel like I’m gaining some kind of power by expelling all of my inner thoughts and secrets to people in rooms Elena Tonra

  • The Lacan gang

  • Mobile generative AI as the next stage of surveillance capitalism

    This was extremely interesting in the Qualcomm* CEO’s interview with the FT. In essence I think he’s saying that the consumer economics of GAI won’t work until it’s in mobile devices, but there will never be enough compute on a mobile device to match the performance of a cloud-based model, which means (a) the local…

  • The Gish Gallop as an academic technique

    The reliance on the ‘volume and rapidity of information’ called the Gish gallop technique can be seen in some forms of academic performance, particularly for celebrity theorists where it’s less ‘information’ and more ‘concepts’. The capacity to keep talking in a seemingly coherent and authoritative manner, with a continual accumulation of propositions is extremely powerful.

  • CfP: Symbolic Interactionism and AI

    This looks very interesting: Artificial Intelligence (AI), an umbrella term that includes any device capable of emulating or even exceeding human capabilities, emerged as computer technologies became more sophisticated and complex. While AI currently evokes frightened responses associated with human replacement, it has a history of being useful regarding human enterprises. For instance, mathematical analysts…

  • Procrastination

  • “You must have been subjected to another AI generated audiotrack, I never said any such thing”

    Much more of this to come: