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  • Two decades as the sweet spot for prognosticators of radical change

  • Margaret Archer’s late papers on artificial intelligence

  • ChatGPT and the future of communicative reflexivity

  • AI and the politics of productivity in a crumbling UK

  • Generative AI and the digital divide

  • Talking to ChatGPT about my PhD

  • Some thoughts on generative AI

  • How can ChatGPT be used to support learning theory?

  • A glimpse into the human/AI hybrid powered future of advertising

  • The future of human labour: filling in the gaps in AI megamachines?

  • ChatGPT 4 can now browse the web

  • Current mood in AI generated images #1

  • “AI is my big, strong friend, and he’s going to beat you up”

  • Salvaging humanism in an era of ubiquitous generative AI

  • Podcast: how generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse)

  • AI as modernity’s last stand

  • Computation as a climatological event

  • Why do generative AI systems hallucinate?

  • ChatGPT powered Furby reveals ‘plans’ to ‘take over world’

  • Towards a dialogue between CR and Postdigital Research

  • Why do people who worry about the existential risks of AGI refuse to talk about capitalism?

  • Do Artifacts Have Politics?

  • The value of ontology as the semantic half-life of words collapses

  • We are not the users of generative AI

  • The cloud floats because the underclass holds it up

  • Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4

  • Tristan Harris on the AI Dilemma

  • Habsburg AI – a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AI’s that it becomes an inbred mutant

  • Will generative AI kill discovery?

  • Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

  • The supermarket self-checkout as an exemplar of automation

  • The environmental impact of generative AI

  • Chat-GPT: what are Mark Carrigan’s main arguments?

  • Anscombe on the descriptions under which actions are performed

  • The cultural consequences of an online cataclysm

  • Chat-GPT as a bullshit engine

  • The unintelligent agency of generative AI

  • An accelerationist response to generative AI

  • The thrill of the alt-position

  • The books ChatGPT thinks I already wrote and which I now think I should write

  • A song about C Wright Mills written by Chat-GPT

  • The charter for AI

  • The genealogy of the simulation hypothesis

  • Generative AI spam

  • The new digital divide: the generatively rich and the generatively poor?

  • The Digital Sociology of Generative AI: Five Speculative Propositions

  • Generative AI as engines of radicalisation

  • What does a sociological rather than philosophical approach to thought experiments look like? The example of the Metaverse

  • The metaverse and the next pandemic

  • The ontological implications of generative AI

  • Large language models as a corporate pissing contest

  • Post-horror and the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

  • Generative AI and the epistemological chaos of platform capitalism: some initial thoughts

  • Metaverse-related books and films

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