Tag: Labor
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Worlds that Don’t Exist
“What’s good for an AI can be very different from what’s good for a human being.” from Propositions for Digital Minds and Society by Nick Bostrom and Carl Shulman Reading Propositions for Digital Minds and Societies truly required me to practice Gayatri Spivak’s ‘three yeses’, as outlined in the syllabus. It’s not necessarily that I…
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Aurora Video Essay on Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
Like many sci-fi films set near an anthropocentric future that have thematic discussions on the isolation nurtured in distant space, the identity crisis raised among clones, the depiction of artificial machines, and their intellectual consciousness, Duncan Jones’ Moon also poses the dire question of what makes a human being, in contrast to a robot AI…
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Creating with A.I.- Who made this project?
A few months ago, I saw a tweet, now lost in the abyss of Twitter (X), envisioning a world in which you and your friend could go to a theater, each put on a headset, and individually input an idea for a movie you’d want to see. Within minutes, the film would be completely generated…
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Creators & Creations: To whom am I speaking with?
Recently on Twitter (X, if you must), a user posed a question asking for examples of scholars who spent years after their discovery distancing themselves from it. The example stated in the Tweet itself is Oppenheimer, and various popular responses include Dong Nguyen and the highly addictive Flappy Bird, David Mech and his outdated analysis…