If we’re headed towards a future of agents integrated into our work and technology, maybe there’s an opportunity for AI to bridge gaps between language barriers. I mean this in both a human and programming sense.
Unplugging may not be the “right” answer. It’s an answer, for anyone who truly wants that kind of life, but it’s right on one end of the s
... See moreHere, consciousness is doubled once through the gaze of the dominant culture and then redoubled as the algorithm’s fun-house mirror amplifies the ideals conveyed through that gaze. With search, it happened to information; with commerce, it happened to products; with social media, it happened, finally, to our selves. If technological capitalism can
... See moreVauhini Vara • Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
By pictures, she meant mental pictures—conceptions of ourselves. But her figure of speech has taken on more literal force today, when we are constantly creating pictures of ourselves, sometimes with photographs, sometimes with words, and sharing them with others online.