Machines learn to recognize increasingly com-plex patterns in data that humans are not able to detect. All this raises thefollowing question: to what extent are machine perception and patternrecognition mechanisms relevant for “aesthetic perception,” and what are thetypically human aspects of aesthetic sensibility that still need to be tackledby... See more

A less cynical way to think about the postmodern tech revolution is that it hasn’t completely subsumed the real, brilliant, chaotic world, but merely emphasized it as vital and precious. Artificial intelligence, in my view, continues this tradition. The only singularity it can truly achieve is one that understands humanity at its most inhuman (and... See more