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Nathan Jacobson
Date
March 6, 2023
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Virtual Reality
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Seductive Optics and Skeuomorphic Intelligence

Appearance and reality in art and artificial intelligence
Nathan Jacobson
March 6, 2023
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Virtual Reality
Things are not always as they seem. Artificial intelligence is like that. Art may be visually indistinguishable from a man or woman, passing the art equivalent of a Turing Test, we know they're not in the least the same kind of thing as what they portray. Paint does not suffer. Stone does not breathe. Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
July 18, 2018
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Applied Intelligence
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No Thanks, Google, I’ve Got This!

Andrew McDiarmid
July 18, 2018
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Applied Intelligence
Hey Google, can you say a prayer for me? Hey Google, can you go to work for me today? I’m not in the mood. Hey Google, tuck my kids into bed. What if in the near future we are encouraged to leave these sorts of tasks to a Big Tech company? Far-fetched? Maybe right now. But what about ten years from now? Read More ›