More-Than-Human Aesthetics | booktwo.org
We realised that the tools we have created to master the world are re-mastering us. But more importantly, it became evident, that the desire for mapping, tweaking and ultimately, controlling, deeply complex systems is hubristic. As Tega Brain writes in her exceptional essay “we must acknowledge how deeply entrenched we are within a computational wo... See more
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
When I was recently on @Baratunde Thurston’s podcast, he read me a poem he’d written: “When the answer to every question can be generated in a flash, then it’s time for us to question just what we want to ask.” And that includes questions like “What do we really want?” and “Who are we really?” So much of the conversation around AI is about making AI more human – but we also need to focus on how AI can make humans more human. In this interview with @FastCompany, Thurston expands on this. As he says, as we think about how to ask the right questions of the machines, we can also use this moment to ask the right questions of ourselves. (Link in bio)
instagram.comThis suggests that AI, as an artistic medium based around playful inter-subjectivity, will be more about process than outcome, more about participation than consumption, more about the doing rather than the beholding. Some of the best AI art experiences are about what the AI prompts in you, rather than what you prompt the AI to do. Enjoying AI art
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Corresponding to the price of authenticity, the tech-vex can also exact a price on human dignity. It begs the question, to what extent does machine-mediated living gratify, ennoble? Can it replace the sense of fulfilment that people feel when they attain a skill or achieve an insight? Can a work put together by artificial intelligence match the elo... See more
Kirk Schneider • Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays
AI can generate a thousand articles while I drink my morning coffee. But it can't tell me which ones matter. It can't feel the resonance of a perfect sentence or know why a particular image stops me in my tracks.
That's what I do now. I collect resonance. Not information - we're drowning in that - but the stuff that makes my soul hum at a different
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