Humanoid Counterparts — MODEM
So as everyday robots approach, we should ask ourselves a series of questions. What do we want them to do for us? What don’t we want them to do? What should we do with the time they will save us? And how come the work we seem most determined to outsource to them is that associated with each other; often with our own relatives ? What does that say... See more
David Mattin • Our Coming Robot Utopia

While AI is trying to present increasingly human, humans are adopting the behaviour of machines. Relentless optimisation, intimacy without ever touching someone, photos that are obviously and explicitly digital. There comes a point where it seems like it's all going to converge....until it becomes extremely apparent that AI could never genuinely be... See more
gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining
because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the
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